Where did the internet exist?
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The internet is the sum of it’s participants. That mean’s your internet connected devices make up part of the internet itself. These participants are connected via radio signals, signal wire, and optics. So cellphone signals, WiFi signals, microwave signals, all sorts of radio signals, make up parts of the internet physical transport layer all around you and through you. There can be infrared connections, as there are smart bulbs that some people employ. On a more commercial scale, copper and more often fiber optics are pulled through the dirt in cables, or there are conduits buried and cables pulled through there, running down the street. My home town used the conduit used for the street lights to run data to all neighborhoods. You might notice there are little sign posts telling people not to dig because there are cables below. Microwave antennas make point to point connections between towers and the roofs of tall buildings. Trans-oceanic cables are laid right on the ocean bottom, several inches thick in diameter, unrolled from spools down to the floor, and spliced together between rolls. This way, ships can lift up the cable and find damage and make repairs.
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