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These images have been chosen for their uniqueness. Subject matter ranges from
historic events, to really cool phenomena in science and engineering, to relevant
place, to ingenious contraptions, to interesting products (which now has its own
dedicated Featured Product
category).
This late 19th century photo of a telephone
cable tower in Stockholm, Sweden, is seen frequently on the Internet. The 'telefontonet'
tower, owned by Stockholms Allmänna Telefon AB (which later merged with
Ericsson),
supported 5,500 lines. Those four decorative turrets at the top were added to beautify
the tower after residents complained about it being an eyesore. Raise your hand
if you think it was a good solution. A couple decades later, the company began burying
phone lines underground and the tower was eventually taken down. At a smaller scale,
many modern data centers look a lot like this inside with all the network cabling
routed - sometimes neatly and sometimes not - between server cards and racks. I
was going to post a photo of one of
Google's
data centers as an example, but of course all the publically available images
show only the tidiest of installations with almost no cables exposed.
Telefontornet in Stockholm, Sweden c1890
Posted March 17, 2016
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