{"id":87349,"date":"2019-09-16T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=87349"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:26:21","slug":"thin-underwater-cables-hold-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/thin-underwater-cables-hold-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Underwater Cables Hold the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The internet is known to pulse through fiber optic cables and cell phone towers, but 99% of high-speed international information is transferred under the sea. How long has this been happening? Underwater cables delivering information isn&#8217;t a novel idea \u2014 the first Transatlantic cable was laid in 1858\u2014undersea cables have been around since the telegraph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ve810FHZ1CQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is known to pulse through fiber optic cables and cell phone towers, but 99% of high-speed international information is transferred under the sea. How long has this been happening? Underwater cables delivering information isn&#8217;t a novel idea \u2014 the first Transatlantic cable was laid in 1858\u2014undersea cables have been around since the telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}