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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. Re:fr057 p157! ARSE! by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is anyone else disturbed by the fact that the goatse.cx guy has a wedding ring on? I think that worries me most of all about this picture...

  2. Replying vs moderating by OzPixel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What part of "Reply, don't moderate" don't you understand?

    What part of "both are neccessary to make SlashDot what it is" don't you understand ?

    Replies for agreement, disagreement, adding information, and the occasional diversion.

    Moderation to rate and maintain the quality of discussion.

    (so I can read at a threshold of 2 and read only around 30-40% of comments, which is more than enough for most topics to get discussed thouroughly).

    (ok, ok, IHBT, HAND, all that)
    David.