# Discover the physical side of the internet

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Andrew Blum
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_blum_discover_the_physical_side_of_the_internet)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Discover the physical side of the internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/andrew_blum_discover_the_physical_side_of_the_internet/c0eba8980d64), 12 min (TED's player)