Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2015
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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't a novel idea - the first Transatlantic cable was laid in 1858-undersea cables have been around since the telegraph.
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The whole world is basically a big lan-party
Lol yeah. It's weird to think about how it all uses the same protocols and communicates in the same way. If I had enough cable I could create an internet with only my friends and I lol.
Oml😂😂
lol
martinpign
Yes... it’s a WAN
joe G i heard by anonymous tip that the internet work by the use of future technology that came to the past by mistake. Now quickly, ima arrange a fallback to the present oh i mean 2055
It's funny because when the internet would go down years ago, I used to joke about how sharks chewed on the cables. Now I know it's true.
i live in nigeria and it once happened. it was announced and i remember i and my friends did curse the shark
Yeah it's true.. Sometimes sharks bite these cables and the connection drops..
The dog ate my homework.
lol
The shark ate my homework :'v
I thought we used satellites for that crap. I never imagined they would make 8000 mile long cables
Yea I kinda thought that too lol
Well that's a bit silly, you can't even get a good connection from your router if move out a few meters, yet you thought all this information had no trouble travelling 1000's of miles wirelessly up into the orbit and then down into your router.
"Satellites"
xMrmegasexybeastx did I spell it wrong?
+CerealKillerOats Satellites have far too much latency. It could take two seconds or more for any packets to reach their destination. The speed of light is sad. :(
There wires that go across oceans and apple can't make the charging cable more than a couple feet
They do make them pretty large, but you have to pay extra money
The cables that go across oceans are not electrical, they are optical fibres (light). Electrical signals through copper have a habit of dropping voltage the longer the cable is. You can get around this by using thicker cables or a higher voltage, but then it starts getting complicated... Also its Apple, why would they do anything useful ;)
That's why you don't buy Apple.
FlashedRom Samsung does the same bullshit though.
the longer the cable the slower the charging speed. so if they built longer cables they would have to broaden them too
Is this what they call "the deep web"
Ayy LMAO no but your moron
I hate to get too serious because this was a joke, but the deep web / Tor is an amazing tool for the free exchange of information. It is highly resistant to censorship and it's almost impossible to stop completely (unless you live in North Korea where they literally only have their own intranet).
Surge Saber bruh y so serious
@@Cobalt985 its not "almost impossible". Using Tor does not guarantee anonymity. Thats for you do to. aaaand 1 year late
@@phillipleong7565 Almost impossible to block, read the comment again
Where do you think the the clouds come from....the water, duh!
you win.
i love you man!
*Um well technically da sun evapourates da water and stuf happens and blah di blah di blah and fijoaojgfohycejdf...
AAAYYYEEE GOT EEEM!!!
jusk someone gives this guy a 800th like plz it's so frustrating to see it having 799 likes
This is honestly like one of the largest accomplishments of mankind and most people don’t know about it.
Ikr
Right??? I was thinking the same
"The cloud" is where everything is stored. Nothing is stored in those cables, they just transmit information. The real cloud is a bunch of server rooms.
He is. All the cloud is a bunch of servers hooked up together, and even then the "cloud" is built on top of that.
Right
Neil Gupta YEP! The cloud is just a bunch of servers. And there isn't just one cloud. Every company...Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.... all have their own "cloud" (rooms of servers) that they sell/give space on.
Well, Microsoft has put an azure data center in the pacific Ocean... You are correct as of now... But not for long :D
":D" WTF why put that stupid ass emoji to the end?
Im just thinking of all those memes swimming through the vaseline!
lol
I claim the entire ocean floor and I demand cable taxes
+Jv Jones can i pay you in likes?
***** Hey bro, what's that like exchange rate to the gold troy ounce? I only accept gold, troy ounce.
i trademarked water
pay up
+Jv Jone dont forget you work for me. your boss *_* pay up
*looks at profile picture, reads comment, throws bullshit flag*
"The best way to create the cloud... is to go under the sea" Totally gonna use that now :D
Darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!
this is gold
For what?
just like water
And you’ll officially be the “ annoying friend “
My dad's a marine engineer & spent around 30 years working for a company that layed these cables. Was always one of his pet hates when people talked about the internet going through satellites.
Lol, I showed my students a map of the cables last year, and it blew their natural minds! They were 14, but they never stopped to ever consider how data moved across the globe.
you're a teacher
Fahd El khamlichi Yes.
jackhappens of what, computer science
English, actually. It's too complicated to explain why it was part of my lesson, but it was.
jackhappens oh ok
My buddy has worked a couple of contracts on boats that lay transatlantic fiber optic cable. He was on a ship for 4 months last summer/fall that was laying a cable between Nova Scotia and Ireland. They only got 1/3rd of the way there! The project will take 12 months total. Very interesting stuff.
That didn’t sound interesting at all.
Great value Bleach ikr
Great Value Bleach sounds interesting to me. Maybe you have different taste?
Whats so interesting about laying cables in the ocean?
Wow Vox, you didn't screw up this video at all. I'm impressed.
Watch the later videos, they tend to be better.
It's really hard to distinguish though.
counter example?
i just began watching them recently, and didn't see any obvious fails
They did. Pewdiepie lives in England, not Sweden.
and he talks about the 'cloud' as if they're saying the internet is in the clouds when really the cloud is just a storage solution using huge server rooms.
My father works for a telecom company and has had to deal with laying the undersea cables. They have to be maintained because sharks like to gnaw on them.
soapftw96 cool
soapftw96
Did he say how they know where on the cable was chewed on?
They have a fibre optic detectors that shoot the laser down the wire(from the mainland) and it will detect a discrepancy at a general distance along the length of the cable. They then go and survey the cable in the general area the discrepancy was found and inspect where the actual damage was found.
soapftw96
That's amazing, it's incredible what technology can do these days
They probably use an OTDR. Optical Time Domain Reflectometer. I worked for a CLEC (local phone company) and we used a TDR (Time Domain Relectometer for copper wires) to find bridge-taps to remove them for DSL service.
"it's always better, where it is wetter, under the sea"
it's always betta where its wetta under...
DEEZ NUTS HAHA GOTEE
bapampadam
The petroleum jelly helps lube up the bits when they get congested so that things flow better.
Frisky
so when you get lagg on fifa its the fucking sharks
+Ben Dover This comment made my day Hahah!
+Ben Dover a shark bit a cable somewhere in europe and half of a country had no internet
+KevinEvo Actually that's not the way the internet works. When one cable is broken you still get access to most sites. Although sometimes with a lot of lag. Off course it's different when you live on a small island with one single connection. But there are not many anymore!
Mum Blic Sarcasm
Randomness Tube bro that's the best thing I've heard all day
Out of curiosity, I suppose these cables are in international waters. if someone sabotages them or steals them or whatever, what happens? Who starts an investigation where and if a criminal is identified, which law applies to them?
I guess since the cables are owned by private companies, said person would be charged by the company that owns the cable he damaged.
Since it's a private company there would be watch boats and it would be tough to get to the exact location where the cables are since there nearly 30,000 feet underwater and I'm sure the exact cable location wouldn't be given to the public.
+RMF No government has an interest in breaking them (they all rely on it), and no terrorist has the equipment to go 30,000 feet deep. Also, if you break one or two cables nothing happens, traffic will just go another way. Getting them all would obviously be undoable and a ridiculous waste of time and money, you'll never get there.
everyone said the same thing about hitler but look how far he came
+AstoundingPilot -SW- Still the cost of doing this would be higher than the benefits. Regular stolen goods already sell for only a fraction of their original price, who is gonna buy a few meters of underwater internet cable? There are easier things to steal that are worth a lot more.
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haizz
No wonder it is called World Wide Web haha
why jon snow?????
Khalid Saleh ur a hot piece of ass
LUL
No way... Oh man
That must mean theres a huge spider lurking on our earth, creating these cables
99% of Internet networking actually are working underwater. Most human still thinking they are running by satellites and huge antennas on Earth. Great explanation from video :)
Human's are fucking awesome.
Yup
Wait 4 years ago @?!$
So underwater creatures can see my spicy memes?
banana boi lmao
"Your internet isn't just underwater. It's also covered in Vaseline."
TRIGGEREDDD
I really like that last line 'the best way to create the cloud is still under the sea'.
Bro, imagine having to maintain these :(
Can't imagine how much effort must go into it.
1:45 Did anyone notice "British America"?
yeah
thats literally what it was called
That makes two uses of petroleum jelly regarding the Internet.
I'm in love with this channel. I'm learning so many new things!
Great vid, I always wondered how they laid down these cables. Amazing stuff, well produced & well narrated !
thank you so much for this post. always wondered how it worked
Wow I just found a new channel I can't stop watching.
Wow a Vox video that didn’t include a single “-ist” or “-ism”. They said it couldn’t be done…..
this was just so interesting and new... Never heard about it. Thanks for covering it.
Still... crazy the amount of data can travel through a small cable and his speed.
Learned something new and awesome today, tenks Vox :)
Wow I've never reall thought about that!
Rhenukia ikr
UNDER THE SEA ALL OF INTERNET UNDER THE SEA
“Motherboard” actually has a video on this and it provides so much substance as they went to the “beach house” where all the wires are connected. It’s awesome to see the facilitator of the facility walkthrough every important details. I will comment the link below!
ruclips.net/video/iMAThVcqzuk/видео.html
There is a really awesome documentary out there that follows one of the ships that does this. I think it's Discovery or AHC channel, the show follows Mega Ships. It's really amazing to watch the process I'd recommend it to anyone curious how it's done.
One of my co-workers accidentally cut a 1200 fiber optic cable in our city. He ended up getting fired and it cost the company 250,000 dollars to repair. A guy has to sit there for hours putting 2,400 tiny wires together and try to not get them mixed up it's crazy.
The fiber is really expensive
So I can simply swim like 100 feet under water and cut access to everyone's internet? :D
Breenud39 TV probably have to go quite a bit deeper. All I can say is I hope you enjoy having the bends, lol.
+Woah Bandicoot, The US is the country that connects the world. DNS registration for the entire world is in the US since the US created the internet. Cutting one of these wires would cut off access to another country or a portion of it or it would effect their speeds. It's like thinking you could turn off the power plant by cutting down a random power line.
Be N S O N close to the shores they won’t be that deep.
Breenud39 TV It did happen a while ago, when an anchor dropped down the ocean cut a cable and it shut internet for quite some time.
Toughrabbit lol
Excellent, as always
Sooo good. I love the Vox.
I'm sorry Vox, Pewdiepie lives in the UK...
+John-Joseph Gray Yea but he moves countries every year so it kind of makes sense I guess.
Yes, but he's from Sweden so it could be a demonstration from when he lived there.
+John-Joseph Gray They said "Pewdiepie from Europe to America". And showed a picture of him in Sweden, yes he does not live there atm but he is from Sweden. I'm pretty sure most people recognize Pewdiepie with Sweden more then Pewdiepie with the UK. So they really didn't do anything wrong. Just more simple to watch.
Uk was in europe right?
Hello the UK is in Europe
:) this video makes me happy
Vox never ceases to amaze !!
This is awesome! I didn't know data travelled through underwater cables!!
gives a new meaning to surfing the web
Vox's content always great, it delivers us the information that we need to know about the world, they deserve more and more viewer and subcribers than pew dee piew(dont know how to wrote it)😕
+Apryanto - B
1. You should have put the word "is" behind the word "content".
2. The second comma should be replaced by either a period or a semicolon.
3. The word "viewer" is used incorrectly. Did you mean to say "views"?
4. The word "wrote" should be replaced by "write".
Sorry, I'm just trying to help you with your English skills. It's clear to me that you're very close to mastering the language.
+Skullking489 viewer means person who watching this video, but okay tho, thanks brother, i appreciate it🙏🏻
Z Dude chill. I was seriously trying to help him out. I meant him no disrespect. People who can speak multiple languages are awesome.
Why are you so weirdly hostile?
Skullking489 idk maybe cos you listed his mistakes and based off of one random sentence and say "Sorry, I'm just trying to help you with your English skills. It's clear to me that you're very close to mastering the language.". rude af. not to mention you screwed up yourself. it is very clear to me that...nobody cares about grammar on YT.
+Apryanto - B Nice profile pic Coldplayer! :D
Amazing! I had no idea!
I'm hearing it. I'm seeing it. I still hardly believe it. That's just insane! Great video!
Amazing! So, what would happen if those cables are damaged by a catastrophic earthquake? Would it affect the internet system worldwide?
Even if just a few of them go down the consequences might be catastrophic, the whole system might even fail, this specific topic is very well covered by the Franz Shatzing novel the fifth day, check it out
+letzsee9 actually their has been a series of disconections in northern europe where the internet has gone down for several hours and they needed to go down and repair the lines
Sorry guys I don't think you understand the AMOUNT OF DATA that's transmitted trough those cables, we're talking about the Internet traffic of, at least, an entire nation, if not more, and you don't fully understand the Internet either.
***** then please enlighten us?
The data transmitted trough the latest fiber optics cables in counted in terms of terabits per second, or anyways hundreds of gigabits, the world average connection speed is 0.0039 gigabits/s, you can very well understand what is the importance of those cables relatively to your own domestic connection. On the other slightly more technical hand, when they go down they bring literally a whole section of the Internet with them, as the whole system is interdependent, and very busy, the infrastructure is not designed to automatically reroute itself when a backbone connection is missing, for the simple fact that parts of this system are not designed to work without a certain amount of bandwidth and there is literally nothing else available to reroute the traffic on. The reason why there are still working to lay new cables on the ocean floor is because they're not enough.
This is unbelievable
Some of my favorite wikipedia articles are about these cables
Lovely video! Good work!
How did I not know about this?
Right? I just thought satellites did all the international work.
+Anthony Cusano really? It can be hard to get a connection a few feet away from your router, and yet you thought that all the information in the world was relayed wirelessly through satellites in seconds? Lol
Yup. I made it to the undergraduate level without ever hearing this information. Satellites were the only means explained. I felt like I had lived under a rock my whole life when i saw this.
BECAUSE YOU ARE A IDIOT
+erick peralta Thank you for your constructive feedback.
This honestly seems like a huge target for any future terrorist organization.
Like Russian fascists ?
Stop being so edgy you are scaring the kids
+ויאמר סבבה! terrorists need the internet the same as everyone else. it's their best recruitment tool.
Then their beheading videos and propaganda can't reach the US.
Not at all. They rely on the internet heavily for communication just as much as we do. That's one bridge they won't be destroying because we both use it.
Wow, you really learn something new everyday.
Yeah I always wanted to know about these cables, thanks!
Booom. Mind blown.
Our internet hella moist and finna slick cuz of the vaceline 😩👌
Just another great video, really interesting stuff, good stuff :)
Super vidéo on comprend super bien ❤
0:22 Wow I could hear some hate in that sentence
well done +Vox.
could you please do a video on 'what makes America most powerful country in the world'
+abdi ali Europe is without doubt the most powerful nation XD
+abdi ali Israel is
+Asger Mortensen lol america is still stronger than europe
+abdi ali no leave that to test tube
Asger Mortensen You have to be kidding.
I love VOX videos!
oh my god this is mind-blowing, thanks vox
I read "thin underwear cables" and was confused for a moment. 😄
Oh god
Me too.
That’s what I do everyday for a living... monitor marine cable circuits.
Spongebob got the best Internet connection out here 😂
Your videos are awesome
I thought it was satellites.
Top 1Percent That's phone, not internet
Zachary Morin lol that's not phone . Phone is cellphone towers you idiot . There is no satellites
Want a million subs with no video . I hope your joking. God help your country if not.
Satellites are mostly used for television transmission. If you go to your cable company, they will have several large dishes to pick up HBO, Disney Channel, etc. They are also used to beam television shows to individual stations for NBC, CBS, and so on. Plus your commercial free radio stations for cable. They are also used for government purposes. There are satellite dishes for the internet, but that is only for people outside areas with internet cables that still want it. This is not used for the actual internet system itself.
Top 1Percent it can be, just the cables are faster
I thought the locations of these cables was suppose to be kept secret? How come all of a sudden these past couple years everyone & their mother is posting up these maps?
BlkDarkness the landing sites are secure but the cables themselves are so deep down you couldn’t possibly get to them
*cuts internet cables" INTERNET'S CLOSED
Learned this in my fiber optic installer class!!!
and all you mfs think it goes to the "satellites"
By ocean, I thought he meant by the deep web and dark net
You learn something new everyday o.o
This is the best thing ive seen all day.
Imagine being the Jerkwad that starts world war 3 because you swam through a cable underwater
My teacher just told me this and it’s on my recommended tonight :) this is cool honestly
Tracked by Google XDD
Cool vid, knew this already because I was bored one night and researched it but it is pretty wild
Wow... I just learned something new today! The more you know.
2:14 "back of a shit"😂
Lol I thought I was the only one that heard it
Lol I thought I was the only one that heard it
This is a quora post about exactly how the cables are placed under the sea. It's a good supplement to this video.
www.quora.com/How-are-major-undersea-cables-laid-in-the-ocean/answer/Faisal-Khan-1
MIND BLOWN!
Please recreate this and update it.
It's incredible content
99% is connect by wire, the other 1% must be outback Australia wifi.......
Or north Korea
what was the video of the dancers at 1:10
Learned something new :)
i never thought of this!
1:15 that map is incorrect
+Robbert Stroet The map lies about greenland's size as much as a 12 years old does for his dick
+The Silver Spooner wat
+Robbert Stroet Greenland is portrayed on this map like it's almost as big as africa. It's not. 14 greenlands can fit into africa.
Chaosligend Yes, I know.
+Chaosligend Maps are usually skewed. You would have to use a weird map to get an accurate size of all countries.
(Source AP human geography)
pewdiepie dont liv in norway or sweden but in england
+fritsfmn you must be fun at parties
dopemcee i think so me self :)
+fritsfmn Fuck yo couch bro
Yep
And England is a city
Vox makes the best effing videos
thanks VOX!
Many ppl think Internet works via Satellites..
Wireless 😁
Wait we actually need cables for the internet ?
Zimic 🙄
Yeah BRAH
I worked on a ocean clam dredging boat about 40 miles off shore and we actually hung up in one of these cables may years ago..when we pulled the dredge up the cable was caught up in the dredge..luckily we were able to disattach it..
Woahh vox... anyone else notice the dip in production quality here? 2:13 you can clearly here the very beginning of a dialogue that gets cut