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Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

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Listen to Odd Lots on Apple PodcastsListen to Odd Lots on SpotifyWatch Odd Lots on YouTubeSubscribe to the newsletterIn 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the internet: It's a "series of tubes." The funny thing is, that's a fairly accurate description. Underneath the world's oceans, miles and miles of fiber-optic cables send packets of information from one location to the next, serving as the backbone of the internet as know it. This infrastructure is de