repostPublished by Scott Kingery on Apr 16, 2023, 11:29 PM 🚀boosted Original Mastodon PostAmazing article:“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks”https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships