‘How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people’
It was a joy to open The Guardian last Friday, and see these beautiful diagrams displaying statistical data on ‘The internet’s undersea world’. It really cheered me up on a cold, boring train journey out of London.
They are reminiscent of Minard’s depiction of the fate of Napoleon’s army, displayed in Edward Tufte’s book ‘The Visual Display of Quantitative Information’. It’s a classic that seems to be getting a lot of press over the last few years – due partly to the rise in internet use.
