@onlyfabrizio@photog.social this only really hit me after I got the first dark fiber circuits of my own. It’s somewhat abstract for your internet connection to a random ISP be optical, but lighting up a 10-kilometer link so that the exact same photons come out the other end is still magical to me.

There’s something very Brazil about it, feels idiosyncratic that it’s not switched in any way, but an actual pipe prepared by hand for you end-to-end