Când o veveriță i-a ros cablul și l-a scos de pe net, ziaristul Andrew Blum a început să se întrebe din ce e făcut Internetul. Deci, s-a pus pe cercetat –  cabluri subacvatice, comutatoare secrete și alte componente fizice care formează netul.

Andrew Blum: Ce este Internetul, de fapt?

What feels like a virtual, weightless world is actually rooted in physical places and cables under our feet and seas. The journey to repair a chewed Internet cable reveals that our global connectivity depends on data centers, fiber-optic lines, and undersea cables as fragile and tangible as any piece of infrastructure. At a Lisbon beach, engineers splice a hair-thin fiber, connecting continents in a process as old as port cities themselves. Seeing the Internet’s real-world construction shifts how we value, understand, and care for the systems that connect us.

The Internet Is Not a Cloud, It’s Built by Human Hands

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