The first submarine cable was laid between England and France across the straits of Dover 115 years earlier than the first satellite was launched in 1965. The story goes that the cable was so fragile that a fishing boat severed it and the crew mistook it for a rare type of seaweed.
一百三十一年前，世界第一條海底電纜布放在英、法之間的多倫海峽，當時的海纜就像一條普通的電話線，由於不夠堅實牢靠，下水後很快就被一艘漁船切斷撈起，還被誤認為是珍奇的海藻。