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title: How Does The Internet Work and Connect Around The World? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-does-the-internet-work-and-connect-around-the-world/
date: 2012-10-14
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# How Does The Internet Work and Connect Around The World?

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.