History and Impact of Submarine Cables

95% of all telephone and data is transferred over submarine

cables.

Not satellite.

Not satellite.

Phone calls, banking, web surfing, email, streaming video, and

other communication.

Heavy case.

And it all began 150 years ago.

We have here samples of the early cables from the

1850s.

Some of the items have not been on display in more than a century.

With this cable now, it was what? Minutes?

Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

It sounds like this was the original information age.

That's right.

If you've ever phoned or emailed someone on another continent,

you can dial

up some gratitude for something that happened a century and a half

ago.

It's been 150 years since the first transatlantic cable began

ushering in global communications, and now tech giants are

taking that undersea revolution a big step further.

This is how worldwide communication begins.

Not satellite.

Not satellite.