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Discover the physical side of the internet

Andrew Blum · TED

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About

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.

The talk

  1. Discover the physical side of the internet 12 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
Andrew Blum
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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