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The All-Red Route 100 Years On

Posted by Hemos on from the stop-blast-from-the-past-stop dept.

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."

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  1. Wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A 5500 mile long cable... that's 1/5 of the earth's circumference. Truly an engineering marvel.

  2. No slashdotting here by plierhead · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Offtopic perhaps but what a delight to see a cheap and cheerful web page that looks like it will survive a slashdotting storm, nothing but good old text and links on it, loads up like lightning...

    We salute you "www.pacific-cable.org" - and not least for saving us from a bushel of lame jokes about the /. effect...

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  3. Re:Transatlantic cable more important by billd · · Score: 2, Insightful
    the first transatlantic cable laid in the 1860's was a much more impressive and historically important achievement

    Yes, but today is not the 100th anniversary of THAT cable. OK.

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