Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storySharks are innocent. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea cables that carry almost all of our intercontinental traffic—supporting just about every swipe, tap, Zoom, and doomscroll anywhere on the planet—have a love-hate relationship with this myth, which has persisted for decades. They might even hate that I’m starting this piece with it.Things Fall ApartRolling out this week, WIRED’s journalistic commissions on technological decommissions—from…
