Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-09-20
Books mentioned on The Underwater Internet
How does the internet get information from across the planet to your house? While many people might guess it's a matter of satellites and synchronous orbits, they'd only be partially correct -- the vast majority of data zipping around online moves through a network of undersea cables.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson is an eccentric, multi-layered work of fiction that helped popularize modern conspiracy culture, discordianism, and the concept of social hacking.
Discussed“people are not sure whether this was to again just make the thing seem more formal and fancy and beautiful and intricate or whether the placement of those symbols just like the placement of schnured in uh illuminatus Trilogy”
Where to get it
