Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You seem to think the entire world is connected by fiber now. Not the case. 98% of long distance cable runs across the world are still air run copper. That won’t immediately impact high dollar facilities like datacenters or undersea cables that are interconnected, but everything else it will take a hit.

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