Of course? Where else would you route them? Did they expect that previous undersea cables would squiggle around for thousands of miles undersea the fun of it?

Of course? Where else would you route them? Did they expect that previous undersea cables would squiggle around for thousands of miles undersea the fun of it? Or connect desert to desert instead of population center to population center? Also, there are huge changes in comparison to modern undersea lines. The majority of connectivity on the Pacific rim, a huge factor in the modern Internet, and all the Pacific undersea cables are all absent from the historical map. If we talk about the big land cables, you'd see a lot of changes there too, some of which actually have to do with geopolitical changes! This only discusses underseas cables with an Atlantic focused view, which is all pretty similar.