The Story of the First Transatlantic Cable (Throughline+)

Throughline producers Lawrence Wu and Devin Katayama discuss the discoveries and delights of making our episode about the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Amazon eyes Ocean City for transatlantic fiber optic cable landing

Ocean City officials are in talks with online retail giant Amazon about bringing the first transatlantic data cable to Maryland, with a U.S. landing point proposed at the Ocean City Municipal Airport, ...
Hosted on MSN

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude? Feature The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly ...
NPR

Roots of internet infrastructure are under the ocean — and date to the mid-1800s

Throughline's Ramtin Arablouei speaks with Bill Burns and Cyrus Field IV on the makings of the first transatlantic cable. What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not ...
WESA

Roots of internet infrastructure are under the ocean -- and date to the mid-1800s

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you. It's not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. The roots of this crucial and often fragile oceanic ...