[trotFunky]

I always love this map, you can find a lot of intersting info. Sometimes it makes me wonder about the history of such or such link.

Is there any map of this quality of the entire world's underground backbones ? I would love to have the other half of the story.

[octoberfranklin]

> Is there any map of this quality of the entire world's underground backbones ?

Not anymore. The last time somebody compiled one they tried to have his thesis classified as a matter of national security.

https://gizmodo.com/for-decades-the-public-was-not-allowed-t...

[trotFunky]

I figured there would be something like that. But then, why are the submarine cables not hidden as much ? Because they are physically harder to access ? Because they travel in shared maritime territory ?

Anyway, thanks for the read, the article and paper were interesting !

[iptrans]

Submarine cables need to be marked on marine charts so that boats don't hit them with anchors and other implements.

[vmception]

The links not connected to the rest of the nodes are for money and trading data.