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World Map of Undersea Internet Connections

posted by Satri on Monday February 04, @11:22AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the there's-more-than-fish-in-the-sea dept.
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Slashdot discussed the how one clumsy ship caused a major Internet outage with this summary: "Here is an interesting world map of various [undersea] Internet connections, showing how it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions." A day later, the same site discussed the effects of the fibre outage throughout the Mediterranean. Vector One also covers the story and links to another undersea Internet connections map. I copied below some previous maps of the Internet.

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