The year Queen Victoria died and Emperor Hirohito was born, there already existed a globe-spanning network of electronic communications cables. Not quite as cool as you thought you were, huh 2009? [Reddit]
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Feb 10, 2009 8:40 AM
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Eastern Telegraph’s Vast Network of Undersea Cables, Circa 1901
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