The question sounds modern: what happens when an undersea cable breaks in the middle of nowhere? The answer begins with a listener question and moves back to 1866, when the Great Eastern went looking for a cable lost during the previous year’s...
At Myrtle Beach State Park, the ocean is the obvious thing. The less obvious thing is a round metal cover near the beach. At the bottom of the stairs beneath it is a cable that runs to Argentina. In Part 1, Samanth Subramanian helped us see the...
Mini golf. Pancake houses. Kids digging with plastic shovels. And somewhere under the sand at Myrtle Beach, a cable that started nine thousand miles away in Argentina, carrying the internet out of the ocean. We found it on a map, and we zoomed in...