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hprotagonist
Pinoygrams as a loss-leader to get into the underseas cabling business. You heard it here first.
Ecco
What’s a pinoygram?
gizajob
It's a joke only for wanderers of Mother Earth, Mother Board, who are old hands at this sort of thing.
digikata
Reference to a plot element in Neal Stephensen's book, Cryptonomicon which included a startup for pinoy-grams enabled by a new submarine fiber-optic cable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

gizajob
You must be great at parties
digikata
At a party we could now be having a nice conversation about Stephenson and maybe Gibson et al.
hprotagonist
just maybe not “the information superhighway”
tiahura
These submarine fiber projects are pretty awesome. A google consortium ran one from Hawaii to Tahiti a dozen years ago and the overnight the internet went from satellite based misery to 30ms latency nirvana.