ocean

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

Slippy dive

 

 

Gifville is planning to enter a team in the aquatics section of the WordPress Olympics, but unfortunately we may need to take the plunge in getting some decent trainers in. Our talent seems a bit… moist.

Credits: GifGifMagazine via Milorad Vidojevic, GIFs Community and Facebook

Hammerhead’s eye

 

Based on electrical activity in the sharks’ eyes, scientists think the shape gives hammerheads, like humans, excellent stereo vision and depth perception. Such traits may help the marine animals hunt speedy prey.

Credits: Discovery Channel, Shark Week and GIPHY, Ker Than and National Geographic News

The Meg

 

 

Me and a friend are planning to go to the Barking Showcase cinema for the opening show of the aquatic horror The Meg when it is released next month. Basically you have a massive prehistoric shark, the Megalodon, that likes to chomp submarines. It’s Jaws on steroids!

Credits: GIPHY via Martha Sorren and Azula

The goldfish bowl

 

Cecelia Ahern — ‘I feel now like I’m living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.’

Credits: imgur via mike_pants, reddit r/perfectloops, GIPHY, Andreea Bruma, Art and Pinterest

ECOWAS

 

I manage the social media account for a small consultancy. Only yesterday one of my tweets was retweeted by none other than the Parliament of ECOWAS, a partnership of countries in West Africa. Above is a GIF promoting an event, OPV Africa run in association with ECOWAS.

Credits: OPV Africa – IQPC via Orient Energy Review