Both a lot of information, and not a lot of information travels through those cables.
It’s going to depend a lot on where you live.
If you’re in North America, the vast majority of the services and websites you access will be hosted on the continent and will continue working just fine. Webpages for European companies may become inaccessible.
If you’re in Australia, some local stuff will continue working, but a lot more things will die.
Services like Netflix almost always have local servers, it’s not financially reasonable to push that much video between continents on a per user basis. They just use those links to sync their various servers as new content is released.
Most phone calls to foreign countries will fail. Almost all of it passes through the internet cables these days, rather than using dedicated phone lines undersea.
The largest providers use CDNs to serve content, which are designed to be redundant and resilient. Cloudflare alone has 335 datacenters on all inhabited continents. Services that don’t need to talk to a single centralised server would be fine.
You are forgetting that those data centres talk to each other using those cables in order to actually have a local copy that they send to the end user.
This caching behaviour will cease to exist if there is no internet connection between the centres.
If a service has authentication centralized, then access will also be cut.
Nice try, Putin.
I have a feeling we’re going to find out in the next five years.
Massive internet leaks.
See?
The Internet really is basically a series of tubes.
It’ll take months of volunteer work to remove the Internet stuck from penguins and baby seals
You have to remove the memes one by one.
Theyd all be caught in networks
Asking for a friend?
Yes, its for my good friend Winnie the Pooh 😉
Nyet.
I’m not an expert. I suppose the internet would be a mess of unexpected holes for a while. But since I don’t know anything more productive than that I just wanted to ask: are you writing the next Bond movie script?
The same results as flushing all the toilets in your house at the same time.
Exactly. Total protonic reversal in a five mile radius.
Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Musk would have his world dominance with starlink. Wait… Does this mean Musk is behind all these cable sabotages and not Putin ?
Starlink subscription about to cost $1000/month for 1Mbps Download / 0.1Mbps Upload, and datacap of 500GB
🙃
And also your background image automatically becomes a swastica
Nah, he doesn’t have a monopoly on satellite Internet.
Lots of demand for technical divers? Price of copper on the rise?
