Article 6M43Q The internet really is a series of tubes

The internet really is a series of tubes

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David Pierce
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Hundreds of cables. Hundreds of thousands of miles. The internet runs, in vastly more ways than we realize or think about, through a series of garden-hose size tubes on the ocean floor. Without those tubes, the modern world sort of collapses. And the folks responsible for keeping them functioning have bigger, harder, stranger jobs than you might think.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk to The Verge's Josh Dzieza, who has been reporting on the undersea cable world and just published a feature about some of the folks who keep it running. It's a story worthy of a high-seas action movie, and it's all about cables.

Then, we chat with The Verge's Tom Warren and Joanna Nelius about the new generation of PCs that Microsoft and others...

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