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The All-Red Route 100 Years On
An anonymous reader writes "On October 31, 1902, the first messages were sent along the All-Red Route -- a 5500km telegraph cable linking the whole of the British Empire. First envisioned in 1879, the long-decomissioned cable is still regarded as the longest single run of cable in the world."
We wont need no stinkin cable.
On October 31, 1902
Why does it take slashdot so long to report these things?
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
burst out shortly afterward....
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
100 years ago, you could call all over the British Empire. Today, you can't call next door because your phone company hosed your bill and you didn't pay them the $23,412 they think you owe.
...the two empty soup tins connected at each end.
now all we have to do is attach a rocket on one end and we got ourselves a tether to orbit.
How could one 5500KM cable link the mother country in Europe to all its colonies in Africa, south Asia, Australia and the Americas???
I was going to post a funny message in morse code on here, but I hit the lamness filter "too many caps".
:(.
Oh well - I guess morse code is lame now
cable is still regarded as the longest single run of cable in the world
Obviously nobody has seen the mess under my desk!!!
...but how quickly can this cable you speak of provide me with easily downloadable, electronic images of nudity?
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
Amazing that it hasn't been hit by a backhoe in 100 years.
geez, no wonder everyone in England complains about not having any bandwidth. Talk about oversold!
I'd be buggered if I had to break out the tone probe and trace the damn thing. I'd wager the batteries wouldn't even make it to the mainland.
-Chris
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
The All-Red Route 100 Years On, I'm surprised no trolls have made the joke connecting the phrase "all-red route" with their obligatory goatse.cx links. Especially considering it's 100 years on.
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The first message across the "All Red Route" telegraph cable was
. _ _ . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ . _ _ . . . . _ . _ . _ . . _
It would have to be... you'd be hard pressed to connect the entire British empire with a puny 5,500km cable.
Ah! It's the Commie Reds! They have an All-Red telegraph line, and they've had it for a century! Mr. President, we cannot allow a telegraph gap!
--GrouchoMarx
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I'm still pretty new to slashdot, so I thought I should practice...
:)
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
No, that doesn't seem right somehow...
I just heard some sad news on Slashdot - Trans-Atlantic cable All-Red was found dead in the Atlantic this morning. Apparently, the cable was quite old. I'm sure it will it missed by the Slashdot community - even if you aren't old enough to have used it, there's no denying its impact on the advancement of telecommunications of the 21st Century. Truly an engineering icon.
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>you'd be hard pressed to connect the entire British empire with a puny 5,500km cable.
Not these days!
- Have a picture
If you considered connecting up cities by telegraph as its first manifestation. The socialogical implications were similar- light speed communication, an inductry bubble, etc.
Al Gore's great-great grandfather even helped build it!
Can you get DSL over this sucker?
"I drank what?" -Socrates
The Brits were cunning and dug directly through the core of the earth.
This feat was quite tricky as they had to dodge Microsoft's secret headquarters.
Worldcom is looking to cut costs by eliminating their transatlantic fiber connections and shift traffic to DSL running over this cable. Turns out they got it for a steal.