Where does the internet come from?

The internet at the house went out and when we called the company they told us it was because the cable carrying the internet broke…in Egypt.   Does that mean there is a cable carrying the internet from somewhere (Europe, maybe?) through Egypt and all the way down through east Africa to Malawi? No wonder the internet here is so slow…

As we all sat around trying to figure out how the internet gets here to Malawi, we discovered that none of us really know where the internet comes from anyway.  And the worst part is, we couldn’t look up where the internet starts without using the internet.  The world we live in….