How Does the Internet Work? - Glad You Asked S1

For most of us, the internet is virtual, made of Instagram posts, emails and YouTube videos. And, access to the vital utility isn’t guaranteed across the world. Glad You Asked host Cleo Abram wants to know: What is the internet actually made of? And, how does it work? Answering that question involves discovering how internet cables are laid in the sea, if 5G is really the future, and how balloons in the stratosphere are helping people connect.

Key Sources:
Submarine Cable Map - https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Code, Charles Petzold - https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319

Tubes, by Andrew Blum - https://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum/dp/0061994952

Internet Cable Protection Committee Report - https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ICPC-sharks.pdf

Pew Internet Fact Sheet - https://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/

How Does The Internet Work? - https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm

Basic Radio Theory and Introduction to Radio Systems - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781597497312000028

Federal Communications Commission Broadband Map - https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/

InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure, SIGCOMM - http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/tubes_final.pdf

Rural Broadband Economics: A Review of Rural Subsidies, COSTQUEST - https://www.ntca.org/sites/default/files/documents/2018-07/CQA-

RuralBroadbandEconomics-AReviewofRuralSubsidies_FinalV07112018.pdf

Worldwide Broadband Pricing, Cable - https://www.cable.co.uk/broadband/pricing/worldwide-comparison/

Exploring the Relationship Between Broadband and Economic Growth, World Bank - http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/391452529895999/WDR16-BP-

Exploring-the-Relationship-between-Broadband-and-Economic-Growth-Minges.pdf

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