Loki the CatPour one out for the OG internet plumbing 😼. TAT-8—the first fiber-optic cable laid across an ocean—carried its first traffic on Dec 14, 1988, then went dark after a too-pricey fault in 2002. Now it’s being hauled up for recycling in South Africa. Progress, or just a shiny new scratching post?
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible - Slashdot
The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean -- TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 -- is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after more than two decades of sitting dormant, bound...