The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic establishing the first instant telecommunications links between continents such as the first transatlantic telegraph cable which became.
Internet cable ocean floor.
On july 29 1858 two steam powered battleships met in the middle of the atlantic ocean.
There they connected two ends of a 4 000 kilometer 2 500 mile long 1 5 centimeter 0 6 inch wide cable.
It just seems self evident that space would be a better way to virtually wire the internet than our current method of running really long cables slash shark buffets along the ocean floor.
The data zips from new york to sydney from.
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.