Tags: undersea
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Friday, March 15th, 2019
Monday, May 1st, 2017
The People’s Cloud
A documentary by Matt Parker (brother of Andy) that follows in the footsteps of people like Andrew Blum, James Bridle, and Ingrid Burrington, going in search of the physical locations of the internet, and talking to the people who maintain it. Steven Pemberton makes an appearance in the first and last of five episodes:
- What is the Cloud vs What Existed Before?
- Working out the Internet: it’s a volume game
- The Submarine Cable Network
- How Much Data Is There?
- Convergence
The music makes it feel quite sinister.
Saturday, October 31st, 2015
Surfacing
An interactive map of the world’s undersea cables, to accompany Nicole Starosielski’s book The Undersea Network.
Monday, March 16th, 2015
Submarine Cable Map 2015
This year’s map from TeleGeography is looking lovely.
Friday, April 26th, 2013
The Secure Transport of Light on booktwo.org
A beautiful piece by James on the history of light as a material for communication …and its political overtones in today’s world.
What is light when it is information rather than illumination? What is it when it is not perceived by the human eye? Deep beneath the streets and oceans, what is illuminated by the machines, and how are we changed by this illumination?
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
Submarine Cable Map
This year’s TeleGeography map of the undersea network looks beautiful—inspired by old maps. I love the way that latency between countries is shown as inset constellations.
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck - igvita.com
This is just wonderful! It combines almost all of my recent obsessions into one unified post: website performance (particularly on mobile) and the locations of undersea cables. The interactive map is the icing on the cake.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
The world’s undersea internet cables - interactive | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Explore the shape of the underwater world of internet backbones.