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What is the Internet, really? - Andrew Blum

2013-05-31

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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.

Talk by Andrew Blum.


A Squirrel Is Chewing on Your Internet
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The Internet Is a Global Phenomena
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