BACK REFLECTION: THE “LIGHT YEARS” OF THE BUBBLE 1998-2005 BY JOSÉ CHESNOY
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ne can find interesting nuggets in a book published in French in 2005: “Du Morse à l’Internet” (Reference 1), written by Gérard Fouchard, René Salvador, Yves Rolland, and Alain Leclerc. In this “back reflection” issue of the SubTel Forum magazine, we propose you a translation of a selected part of this book in which one can guess that Jean Devos also contributed. This selected part present the vision of the formation and the outburst of the Internet bubble that impacted telecommunications and especially submarine cables in early years 2000. When you read this article, please remember that it was written in 2005, about halfway between the advent of the first optical cable, and now, and you will enjoy how fresh it is 18 years later.