$10 USDC to whoever can find me a chart of miles of fiber optics cables in existing over the last 50 years.

Y axis: some measure of how much cable exists
X axis: time

What i'm trying to illustrate is the effect the dot com bubble had on infra build out

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First started in 1988, this seems to have # of cables.

Dotcom era tripled build numbers from the prior year (99/00)

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Here is my submisison with paper link: 
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-26-18-24190&id=396718#articleFigures