How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | Technology

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1. How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people | Technology | The Guardian

"People just don't realise that all these things go through undersea cables - that this is the main way these economies are all linked," said Alan Mauldin, the research director of TeleGeography. "Even when you're using wireless internet, it's only really wireless back to your base station: the rest is done over real, physical connections."

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