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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. Just curious... by NeuroManson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has anyone tried seeing if a signal could still be carried on the cable? Would be a cute test to see if it held up to the century of existance...

    Or, just to play on the irony, run some packets over it do a bit of IRC or telnet chatting...

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