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Internet is a bunch of tubes. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre-optic cable, pulsing with trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous exchanges in secretive locations with vast data-warehouses where our online selves are stored in banks of spinning hard-drives. This title takes us behind the scenes of this hidden world
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Tubes, Andrew Blum
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Tubes
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Andrew Blum
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0670918989
- ISBN13
- 9780670918980
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Technology & Engineering, Computers & Internet, Science, Technology, Journey, Internet
- Original title
- Tubes
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Internet is a bunch of tubes. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fibre-optic cable, pulsing with trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous exchanges in secretive locations with vast data-warehouses where our online selves are stored in banks of spinning hard-drives. This title takes us behind the scenes of this hidden world