The Internet’s veins

 

 

The Internet today is only made possible by tens of thousands of kilometres of cabling at the bottom of the sea and buried underground. The above GIF from Vice’s Motherboard site shows the development of the submarine backbone from 1989 to 2017.

Credits: Builtvisible and TeleGeography via Meghan Neal and Vice Motherboard

Fibre optics – now with head-spinning speeds

 

Say bye-bye to buffering. Spinning thingamijig not included.

Credits: Via Pia Hollund, Awesome GIF’s and Facebook