What is the Internet, exactly? - Andrew Blum
May 08, 2026•11 min
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Episode description
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.
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