Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

This article reminds me that great writers and great magazines still exist. Jane Ruffino took me with her into a world I knew nothing about, and I’ve worked in the communications industry for 40 years.

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A wonderful, interesting, fascinating article. I'm in my 80s and have been involved in communications, mostly audio since fiber optic cables were just an experimenter's dream. I remember it was big news when that cable was laid. (My father worked for Western Electric for many years before retiring in the early 1970s, and continued to get all the WE magazines as a retiree.) So, now I learned how they are able to retrieve the cables from the ocean floor to repair or (yes) salvage them, You learn something every day, if you keep reading. Thank you for publishing this. Better reading than most of the horrid news emanating from our nation's capitol.

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Articles like this one are important as most people never question how our world actually works. Not only the physical part that humans play, but how every piece of equipment had to be designed and manufactured in a facility that had to be developed to produce said equipment. Everything. It boggles the mind the complexity of our life that most just take for granted. How many people look at that product they are about to purchase or use and think of the process that it went through from concept to raw materials to production to distribution? Learning about the undersea cable is fascinating, and again, one of those facets of our world we take for granted, and shouldn’t.

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