Business Insider boards a ship that lays the internet
A factory visit and an ocean-cable voyage anchor a week that also examines Amazon pricing and the Naked Cowboy's budget.
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Inside America's Only Internet Sea Cable Maker
More than four million views have gathered around a piece of internet infrastructure most of us never see: cable stretched across the ocean floor.
Business Insider's "Inside America's Only Internet Sea Cable Maker" visits a decades-old factory and boards a cable-laying ship, following the physical work behind seemingly weightless online connections. The report examines how cables are made and laid, why big tech wants more capacity, and what happens when a connection breaks. Its description identifies the company as America's only business capable of both manufacturing and laying these cables.
The comments bring that hidden network closer to everyday life. A viewer identifying themselves as a fiber-optic engineer points to how little people know about the system. Another remembers hurried calls from Ireland to relatives in Australia in the 1980s, contrasting them with ordinary video calls today. Elsewhere, someone has a more domestic use for all that engineering: connecting the refrigerator.
Across 15 uploads, the newsroom also published "How Amazon's Low Prices Raised Prices | So Expensive," examining California's price-fixing allegations and including Amazon's response. The Pay Check takes a more personal route through the economy, with Robert Burck, better known as the Naked Cowboy, explaining the income streams and expenses behind his Times Square performances.
Those three reports are also the channel's most active videos right now, with the sea-cable visit drawing by far the most daily views. Overall daily viewing is below half its usual pace, while subscribers held steady over the week. Business Insider nevertheless brought in roughly 14 million weekly views, with its biggest new audience gathering around the workers who keep the internet connected.
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Watching this as a fiber optic engineer is beautiful
This is an aspect of modern communication that alot of people don't know how it works@foreversammyartsSee it on YouTubeGlad this exists so companies can connect my fridge to the internet
@samnathan2709See it on YouTubeI remember in the 80s in ireland, waiting to call relatives in australia at Christmas. We had to quickly say hello and pass the phone to the next person. We only knew them from photos sent in the mail and those brief calls.
Now, we do video calls every other day and don't think about it.
Its amazing the progress made in such a short time thanks to cables like these.@dreddfan01See it on YouTube
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The fact the internet is just a bunch of hidden extension cords is still mind blowing
@whallop8675See it on YouTubeIt's so amazing how our data travels in split seconds to the other side of the world.
@ldioneil07See it on YouTubehome alone, got my tea, power up my youtube to something random like this, A+
@fuzzywumplesSee it on YouTubeThanks to all the people making this possible.
@KalsenHammanSee it on YouTubeIt’s incredible how something we rarely think about keeps the entire world connected. 🌍 The real heroes of the internet are the engineers and workers building and maintaining these underwater highways of information.
@SaidRohullahSadatSee it on YouTubeThis is the cleanest ship I've seen based on that age...
@smoketinytomSee it on YouTubeI work at a company in SC that makes fuber optic cables. The kind we make are used in overhead power lines and for deep sea mining wells. I run the big machine that wraps steel around the fiber.
@davidhansen6788See it on YouTube
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