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Posts Tagged ‘submarine cable’

Fabulous facts you didn’t know about submarine data cables

Submarine communication cables are the carriers of nearly 100 percent of all the mails, tweets, pasta recipes and other digital communications across the oceans. They connect every continent except Antarctica.

We also find them to be chewy, entangling, fast, file-sharing and an achievement. In brief, we are fascinated by these high-powered garden hoses and we have compiled some interesting facts about them.

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The major incidents on the Internet in 2008

We have gathered 10 of the most noteworthy incidents on the Internet in 2008. This was another eventful year, full of its share of accidents and incidents that disrupted the Internet and the WWW. We have included problems ranging from website outages and service issues to large-scale network interruptions. You are sure to recognize several of them.

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