Throughline producers Lawrence Wu and Devin Katayama discuss the discoveries and delights of making our episode about the first transatlantic cable, “The Internet Under the Sea” (https://n.pr/4qLu02w) ...
In 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph cable connected Europe and North America — and history was never the same. For the first time, empires could speak in near real-time across oceans. It was a ...