Episode
What is the Internet, exactly? - Andrew Blum
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- TED-Ed
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- Jul 22, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 749
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Summary
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net. Talk by Andrew Blum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices