Quiz question

[onionpeel]

In what year was South Africa linked to rest of the world by submarine cable?[]
I suppose you could research this, but then you would be missing the point. I would like people to post what they know, first...

 

[Perdition]

Well if you're not talking specifically about internet access then the first submarine cable (to England) was in 1889.

 

[kaspaas]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Perdition</i>
<br />Well if you're not talking specifically about internet access then the first submarine cable (to England) was in 1889.

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My I have the source for verification - I would like to use this in a quiz myself.

Thanks.


South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.

 

[Perdition]

I don't have a link to the original source where I learned about it but a cursory search on Google reveals the following link :

http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/misc/norfolk.htm

 

[kaspaas]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Perdition</i>
<br />I don't have a link to the original source where I learned about it but a cursory search on Google reveals the following link :

http://www.museums.org.za/sam/resource/misc/norfolk.htm

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Thanks!

Excellent source for a lot of trivia

It is actually amazing that they could lay a cable then - considering the effort it still is today with all the technology that is available today to assist the cable manufacturers, layers and maintainers!




South Africa needs World Class Broadband at World Competitive Prices.

 

[Perdition]

I expect it was placed very close to the coastline but I agree it must have been a mammoth task, and even more so to troubleshoot a cable fault. I doubt they had TDR's in those days []

 

[onionpeel]

The answer is 1880 and the source is non other than Telkom[]
http://www.telkom.co.za/news/telecomshistory.jsp