Say goodbye to the undersea cable that made the global internet possible.

Jane Ruffino   Wired UK23 February 2026
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fibre-optic cable from the ocean floor.

TAT-8—built by AT&T, British Telecom, and France Telecom—was the eighth transoceanic system across the Atlantic.