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Rethinking submarine fibre cable projects in the South Pacific
- aaron695 5y ago
- tiahura 5y agoThese submarine fiber projects are pretty awesome. A google consortium ran one from Hawaii to Tahiti a dozen years ago and the overnight the internet went from satellite based misery to 30ms latency nirvana.
- hprotagonist 5y agoPinoygrams as a loss-leader to get into the underseas cabling business. You heard it here first.
- Ecco 5y agoWhat’s a pinoygram?
- gizajob 5y agoIt's a joke only for wanderers of Mother Earth, Mother Board, who are old hands at this sort of thing.
- digikata 5y agoReference to a plot element in Neal Stephensen's book, Cryptonomicon which included a startup for pinoy-grams enabled by a new submarine fiber-optic cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon
- gizajob 5y agoYou must be great at parties
- digikata 5y agoAt a party we could now be having a nice conversation about Stephenson and maybe Gibson et al.
- hprotagonist 5y agojust maybe not “the information superhighway”