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The People Holding Up the Internet
A new data visualization project profiles the people who keep the internet running, from cable layers to data center technicians. The piece, shared on Hacker News where it ranked among the day's top stories, highlights the largely invisible workforce behind global connectivity. Commenters praised its focus on the humans behind the infrastructure rather than the technology itself.
Why now: Readers are drawn to humanizing the usually invisible infrastructure workers behind the internet
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- The people holding up the internet · simjue · 187
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