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Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are

Posted by timothy on from the pulsing-through-the-depths dept.

overThruster writes with a report from TechCentral that "Greg Mahlknecht has built a free map showing the world's submarine telecommunications cable systems. The map, which took Mahlknecht several months to complete, is free of charge and will remain so.'" (At least until it gets shut down as a security threat.)

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  1. Re:Looks like the old telegraph maps by albertid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nice observation! An even older communication system also resembles the pipes to some degree, namely the major trade routes from 1400-1800: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/conc5en/tradeflows14001800.html