Worth Remembering The Next Time You Complain About Lag


Look, as someone living in Australia, I don’t want to infringe on your god given right to whinge about lag. You are Australian. This is your birthright.

I just want to say this: the internet is a terrifying series of tubes funneled under the ocean and holy shit humanity can achieve incredible things when it’s not busy starting proxy wars and polluting the shit out of everything.

This video was produced by our sister site Business Insider. It basically shows the cables that power the internet and where they are in the world. Sure, it’s not really ‘video games’ but I found it fascinating and maybe you will too.

Something to ponder while waiting for the doors to open next time you play Overwatch or whatever.


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