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TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again https://hackaday.com/2026/02/24/tat-8-the-first-transatlantic-fiber-rises-again/
#Internethacks #News #Fiberoptics #Transatlanticcable #Undersea

TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/24/tat-8-the-first-transatlantic-fiber-rises-again/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="298" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/tat8.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and the first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, carrying 560 Mbit/s on two fibers between Tuckerton, New Jersey, and, thanks to an underwater splitting device, Widemouth Bay, England, and Penmarch, France. Construction of the cable began in 1998. Later that year, the first call, made by [Issac Asimov] took place. The cable was retired in 2002. Now, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/subsea-environmental-services_submarinecable-tat8-fiberoptic-activity-7391955702262706176-Vw56" target="_blank">Subsea Environmental Services</a> is recovering the cable for recycling.</p>
<p>The 6,000 km cable was built by a consortium of companies including AT&T, France Télécom, and British Telecom. The 1.3 micron fiber used special optical repeaters about 40 km apart and cost about $335 million (just shy of a billion dollars today). Designers were optimistic, with some claiming the cable would end the need for future cables or, at least, that the cable would not reach capacity for ten years or more. In reality, the cable was saturated within 18 months. Turns out, the equivalent of 40,000 phone lines wasn’t enough.</p>
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CIA’s World Factbook is Gone

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/cias-world-factbook-is-gone/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="375" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cia.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you locate specialized data like the Thomas Register, the EE and IC Masters for electronics, or even an encyclopedia or CRC handbook. But if you wanted up-to-date info on any country of the world, you’d often turn to the CIA. The originally classified document was what the CIA knew about every country in the world. Well, at least what they’d admit to knowing, anyway. But now, the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell/" target="_blank">Factbook</a> is gone.</p>
<p>The publication started in 1962 as the classified “The National Basic Intelligence Factbook,” it went public in 1971 and became “The World Factbook” in the 1980s. While it is gone, you can rewind it, including a snapshot taken just before it went dark on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260204071503/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/" target="_blank">Archive.org</a>.</p>
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<p>Browsing the archives, it looks like the last update was in September of 2025. It would be interesting to see a project like Wikipedia take the dataset, house it, and upda

CIA’s World Factbook is Gone https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/cias-world-factbook-is-gone/
#Internethacks #News #Cia #Referencebooks #Worldfactbook

Ordering Pizza On Your Sega Dreamcast Is Very Clunky Indeed https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/ordering-pizza-on-your-sega-dreamcast-is-very-clunky-indeed/
#Games #Internethacks #Pizza #Sega #Segadreamcast

Ordering Pizza On Your Sega Dreamcast Is Very Clunky Indeed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/30/ordering-pizza-on-your-sega-dreamcast-is-very-clunky-indeed/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ordering-a-Pizza-on-a-SEGA-Dreamcast-in-2024-6-19-ffffff.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>If you’re ordering pizza these days, you’re probably using a smartphone app or perhaps still making a regular old phone call. If you’re creative and a little bit tricky, though, you can order pizza right from your Sega Dreamcast. You just need to jump through a few hoops, <a href="https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2024/11/ordering-pizza-online-on-sega-dreamcast.html" target="_blank">as demonstrated by [Delux] and [The Dreamcast Junkyard] in the recent past.</a></p>
<p>You used to be able to order pizza on the Dreamcast natively, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/12/10/order-a-pizza-through-dreamcast" target="_blank">all the way back in 1999</a>. However, the modern Domino’s website doesn’t really work on the ancient Dreamcast browser anymore. The simple fact is that web technology has advanced a long way in the last couple of decades, and Sega didn’t exactly spend a lot of time maintaining a browser on a console that died mere months after its rivals hit the market.</p>
<p>Thus, to place a pizza order on the Dreamcast these days, you need to work within its limitations. [Delux] uses the Dreamcast with the <a href="https://segaretro.org/Broadband_Adapter" target="

Wikipedia as a Storage Medium https://hackaday.com/2026/01/28/wikipedia-as-a-storage-medium/
#Internethacks #Cloudstorage #Wikipedia

Zombie Netscape Won’t Die https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/
#Featured #History #Interest #Internethacks #AOL #Internet #Isp #Netscape #Netscapenavigator #Yahoo

Escaping the Linux Networking Stack at Cloudflare https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/escaping-the-linux-networking-stack-at-cloudflare/
#Internethacks #Cloudflare #Networking #Proxy

🌍 23 Websites You Need to Bookmark

The internet is full of hidden gems—like sites that remove paywalls, find recipes based on what’s in your fridge, and even tell you the best glue for sticking this to that. 🔥📌

👉 https://mehdium.com/23-useful-websites/

#UsefulWebsites #InternetHacks #BookmarkThis

Taking Back The Internet With The Tildeverse https://hackaday.com/2024/09/14/taking-back-the-internet-with-the-tildeverse/ #Retrocomputing #internethacks #minimalist #Tildeverse #Fediverse #minecraft #gemini #Gopher #radio #retro #Tilde #voip #www

A Look At The Small Web, Part 1 https://hackaday.com/2024/09/10/a-look-at-the-small-web-part-1/ #CurrentEvents #internethacks #OriginalArt #Featured #Interest #smallweb #gemini #Gopher #HTTP

A History of Internet Outages https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/a-history-of-internet-outages/ #internetoutages #submarinecables #internethacks #CrowdStrike #History

Linksys Velop Routers Caught Sending WiFi Creds in the Clear https://hackaday.com/2024/07/15/linksys-velop-routers-caught-sending-wifi-creds-in-the-clear/ #internethacks #SecurityHacks #plaintext #linksys #router

Ask Hackaday: Has Firefox Finally Gone Too Far? https://hackaday.com/2024/07/14/ask-hackaday-has-firefox-finally-gone-too-far/ #internethacks #SoftwareHacks #webbrowser #firefox #privacy

Ticketmaster SafeTix Reverse-Engineered https://hackaday.com/2024/07/11/ticketmaster-safetix-reverse-engineered/ #securitythroughobscurity #reverseengineering #internethacks #SecurityHacks #SoftwareHacks #concertticket #hashalgorithm #ticketmaster #News #totp

The Gopher Revival Is Upon Us https://hackaday.com/2023/12/29/the-gopher-revival-is-upon-us/ #internethacks #finger #gemini #Gopher #web

Browsing The WWW On a 1980s IBM PC Using MicroWeb https://hackaday.com/2023/11/06/browsing-the-www-on-a-1980s-ibm-pc-using-microweb/ #Retrocomputing #internethacks #MicroWeb #IBMPC

Is a Pigeon faster than the Internet? https://hackaday.com/2023/09/02/is-a-pigeon-faster-than-the-internet/ #internethacks #carrierpigeon #internetspeed #datatransfer #pigeon

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