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Andrew Blum is an American journalist and author who writes about architecture, technology, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in publications such as Wired, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
Known for: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
In 'Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet', journalist Andrew Blum explores the physical infrastructure of the Internet, tracing the cables, data centers, and switching stations that make global connectivity possible. Through his travels to undersea cable landing sites, Internet exchange points, and server farms, Blum reveals the tangible, human-built network that underlies the digital world we often imagine as virtual.
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The Concept of the Internet’s Physicality
It used to sound quaint—asking where the Internet is. We’d point upward, reflexively, as though data lived in the sky. Corporate marketing had taught us to imagine a cloud. But clouds are vapor, and the Internet is the opposite of vapor. It is cables, wires, and machines—dense, humming, power-hungry...
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Tracing the Network’s Origins
To understand what the Internet has become, I had to retrace where it came from. The story begins in the 1960s, with an audacious experiment called ARPANET. Conceived by scientists under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPANET connected a handful of computers acro...
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About Andrew Blum
Andrew Blum is an American journalist and author who writes about architecture, technology, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in publications such as Wired, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. He is known for his accessible explorations of complex systems that shape modern life.
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