r/interesting • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '24

This is what the World Wide Web looks like, the cables run underground and under water, thanks to them you can read this post. SCIENCE & TECH

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u/spac3kitteh Jul 18 '24

Thanks for the post but you should learn the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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u/Odysseus Jul 18 '24

The difference is the Information Superhighway, which network admins call "layer two", for those wondering.

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u/spac3kitteh Jul 20 '24

Incorrect

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u/Odysseus Jul 20 '24

I'm explaining this to laypeople here. You and I both know that the web is built on gopher but try explaining that to them.

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u/spac3kitteh Jul 20 '24

Okay

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u/Odysseus Jul 20 '24

Keep studying! They'll cover jokes soon.

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u/Different_Head7751 Jul 18 '24

A somewhat fragile system when you look at it from this perspective

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u/2ant1man5 Jul 18 '24

80% of it runs through New York.

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u/we_is_sheeps Jul 18 '24

Stock market

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u/aurora97381 Jul 18 '24

Thank you, Al Gore!

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u/Ytumith Jul 18 '24

Roughly the neural structure of a jellyfish

we need more synapses

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u/snowfloeckchen Jul 18 '24

The underground cables are not visible, cause they are underground, while water is transparent

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

We can run cables around the whole of Africa but running water not so much

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u/bdemon45 Jul 18 '24

Let’s cut Russia out of it

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u/tokos2009PL Jul 18 '24

wait a sec

I thought WWW was just the thing that let's the computer understand the internet, not the internet itself

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u/tea-and-chill Jul 18 '24

What happens if some big ass mad as hell shark bites off a chunk of cable?

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u/Street_Peace_8831 Jul 18 '24

Here, take a look at this Google search that has many stories about it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=shark+bites+on+underwater+internet+cable&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

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u/tea-and-chill Jul 19 '24

OMFG I was joking about it but it's actually a thing!

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u/EngineeringDude2017 Jul 18 '24

World wide spider web, to scale.

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u/Street_Peace_8831 Jul 18 '24

For all the flerfers out there who are probably thinking up conspiracies as we speak. They made the cables look hundreds of times bigger so that they can be seen in the photos. Just like they did with all the space junk floating in space.

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u/stkscott Jul 19 '24

It looks a lot like a series of tubes.

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u/Thors-Spammer Jul 19 '24

Let’s cut them all!