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The birth of fiber optics – Faust, fountains and crossbows

As you may already know, fiber optics are kind of important. They are the linch pin that currently holds our massive high data rate internet together. Without fiber optics, we’d all have spent the summer watching Stranger Things at a resolution of about 4 pixels, instead of being able to Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years2 November 2016 ago
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