The Internet is where we live our digital lives. But it's also a physical network of cables that span the globe. Earlier this year, a South African man created this fantastic interactive map of ...

A map of the submarine telegraph in 1858, though the attempt only worked for three weeks. ( Wikimedia Commons ) Modern cables are surprisingly thin, considering how long they are and how deep they ...

The locations of internet exchanges tend to follow population hubs because the routes of internet connectivity often follow older routes of telephone connectivity (which themselves often follow ...

A London Underground-style map of the cables that form the backbone of the internet has been created by Oxford academics. The overview of the world's submarine fibre-optic network was created to ...

H.M.S. 'Agamemnon' lays the original Atlantic Telegraph cable in 1857. | Heritage Images/GettyImages. In 1854, installation began on the first transatlantic telegraph cable, which connected ...

Everything you need to know about the undersea cables that power your internet - and why they're at risk of breaking. There is a huge system of fibre-optic cables lying underneath the world's oceans ...