I love things like TeleGeography’s interactive submarine cable map.
You can zoom and scroll and click on the map for descriptions of the cables or search their cable database.
It is an anatomy diagram for the global nervous system with us as neurons.
Compare that to this map of the NSFNet in 1986:
(Those are 64kbs links).
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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My name is Larry Press. I am an information systems professor and have been learning and teaching about information technology since the days of unit record equipment.