That Makes Sense.
Absolutely everyone else in the world is probably already aware that this is how it works, but did you really realize that there are all these underwater cables running across the Atlantic so that we can, um, talk to people in Europe on the phone, and stuff? And they’ve been there for ages, and it’s all very steampunk? Isn’t that weird? It’s not just old-timey switchboard operators pulling those pointy things in and out of talk-slots. Really!