It’s easy to take all the Internet’s technical infrastructure for granted sometimes when all of this instantaneous communication happens so effortlessly.
Wired magazine has recently published a fascinating series of photos which highlight the very physical backbone of the Internet and show all the different places (data centers, optic fiber pipes) where the magic happens.
Here are five seemingly picturesque images, which are in fact major points on the Internet’s journey as data flashes from sea to wired sea. In this example, data reaching an office in downtown Los Angeles, California will have traversed the entire North American continent, starting from the Canadian city of Halifax and passing thorough the American states of New York, Virginia and Missouri.
Crazy, isn’t it?!