 Hello. Good evening. It's an honor for me to be here and especially you to tell you where you know where the internet is and to tell you where the internet is. I work to release stations and I looked for the internet for them over the last two years. Music? Alright, the internet is a new country for everybody. Again, you know this citation. The internet is a new country for all of us. Yeah, that's how bad it sometimes is for us when Angela Merkel, the drama chancellor, says things about the internet. Sometimes you have to feel the politics doesn't understand what the internet is. There are different people like someone from the Carl's Computer Club talk about that it is a place. In this place Senator Steven said, the internet is not something, it just does something. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. No, he translates it as the internet is not really a series of tubes. Earlier it really was that you entered the internet and left it. Really. I don't understand anything about technology but nowadays even my wife said that we have to go to the internet. Have I already entered the internet? I entered it. That's easy. That's so easy it is with AOL internet. Rose Baker made commercials for these CD-ROMs, the AOL CD-ROMs. And the questions, am I in the internet is a question that is interpreted and we are always just short in time in the internet. Some say it always had other connotation because of the problems he had. Another thing is that the internet comes closer to us. That's like the telephones. It used to be that telephones were on the outer doors, on the small rooms. You have to leave the flat to or go to specialized chairs to telephone. Later the phones entered the homes and then they got wireless. Until today there are small animals that live in our pockets. We could in the cell phones and the computers use and skip its symbiotic life. I wanted to show that we melt with the technology and instead of going into the internet we are in the internet and we are getting like a cyborg. And the cloud is also a new word. The cloud is everywhere. But what does it mean? Martin Hasse tells us he doesn't really know where it is. I ask myself where is the internet? This is my own router at home. You can't really see it. It's below my desk. On the other hand I followed it. It's outside in the old burning farms. And we want to open the window. Can we also open the lower part of it? Here where the cables go through. The internet is physics. It goes into the distribution units. It's ADSL. It had then opened the box and so it was sitting on the inside. And he then used some kind of sensor to open it. So I am connected to point 11 instead of point 13. And that's out on the street. And suddenly they opened the street and the cables. And there's a whole hierarchy of cables. We have sometimes destroyed cables. It also happens with power cables. And cable TV also goes sometimes. So it is a physical thing where the digging machine can go over. And then we end up for a whole block in a box like this. That is Martin Hasse. It had this distribution box. This is here where the internet lives. Well not really. But it is a part of the internet network. The internet is really where the networks go together. So where the internet is like a giant. Here are only the cables that go to the final customer. Or they go to the telecom where a couple of blocks on. And it's this building. This building is not that tall. And during the Second World War or just after the Second World War all the allies will listen to the telephone connections here in Schöneberg. The network is a connection of networks. There are maps like this. That's a big area of level three. And they have a lot of cables worldwide. Who knows what they can listen to. And this company also has these maps online. And if I make a ping from my computer or a trace route I want to look how do I get somewhere else on the internet. Usually it goes over Frankfurt. Frankfurt has an autobahn coil. So main crossing, crossroad or in the major airport. And in a small industrial area. I found this D-6. It is the most important internet point. Why it's not possible to show me where the giants of the internet are. They have talked a little bit about it. But we are changing something right now. They were under construction so I couldn't show it. I then asked them why the intelligence service couldn't listen to this internet giant. You can ask that for the intelligence services. Is it a fact that 15-20% are listening and that is law. It is written like that in law. The intelligence service may listen to 25% of the foreign traffic. I don't know how it works. I can tell you how it might work. There are different methods where how to get data out of the network. How could you get data out of the networks? You can split the cable. So you make a physical connection to the cable. And you make a Y cable. And then you put the data in two directions. Normal procedures. Does that happen in these kicks? I cannot tell you. You feel that he is a little concerned about the law. And he cannot tell you. And Disneyx is one of the biggest internet exchanges in the world. And he can tell you. And because he didn't show me where the internet is. And it's different buildings. And they are all unencrypted. He said, so I asked a fast-food chain. Hello, I have another question. Do you know of the internet here? Can I get the internet here somewhere? Internet. So the lady didn't really know that she was close to the joints of the internet. Even though you can see it easily on the arrow photos. You can see the blue arrows are on the internet exchanges. And the yellow was the fast-food chain. This is photos of one of the big dick kicks installations. And here is a cable side. The NSA are not allowed to listen here. But it can happen. The question is then, how does the internet go from dick kicks to, for example, the United States? So you have a cable and there are two ways to make redundancies. So through Norway and the UK. And this is by the same company where he is not telling a name. And he asked for access. If prison and temporary exist at all, nobody knows how it works. Except for Snowden. And if it happens and it would have been happening in Butte in the UK. It's probably top secret. And probably through some time. So we can't just open our connection because it's secret internet. They built a site in a pop-fuel or a German newspaper. They left that in, but us not. That is the network of Drax cable. It's a worldwide map of the internet traffic. A lot of data goes through those cables. The cables look like this. In the middle there are just really tiny glass fiber cables. And the others are protection against different internet enemies like this shark. They sometimes just chew onto the network internet. And there were cables that were chewed on. There are other cables. This is a prism map from the NSA. They also listen to the internet. So I went to the United States and I wanted to look. Where the internet came to the world. And that was here. That is the UCLA. That is the University of Los Angeles, California. And in this one floor is that also the NSA. There were some nice problems here. He apparently lost his microphone. Exactly. Now we switched to a different microphone. That is the UCLA in California. And in 1964 the internet was born. In this room. In this room the first internet connection was created. And I met a professor who worked there. And who was there where the first internet connection was created. You just walk into the 1960s and you feel it. It's the color and you feel like you go back to when I was a young man. He showed us this room and it didn't used to be a museum. But it is a museum now. And you have to imagine this big box. Huge Fritz box. It's a router. Very popular in Germany. And this connection used to stand in a storage room. But they now recognize it as an important part of the history. And he's very proud about this. That machine over there is the first piece of internet equipment. So can I ask you a question? How many evolutions do you know where you know exactly when it began and exactly where it began within four square feet? Not too many. But here you can. 1969 in those four square feet. Exactly on this place there was this first internet processor. And the situation was the following. In the UCLA they had a computer and in Stanford, at Stanford Research Institute they also had a computer. And they wanted to transmit the session login. You have to imagine. The telephone connection from Charlie to Bill. Charlie tapped it, the L and he said, Yeah, the L was transmitted. Did you get the O? Yeah, the O was transmitted. And at the G it crashed. And it broke. So what was the first information on the internet? It was low, like low and behold. So the first word of the internet was low because the connection broke after that. He talks a lot about that. Low was also about see and be amazed. And he made a proud presentation and got a lot of honor of different people so that he had the first internet connection. So I asked him where the internet lives today and he gave the internet over to the smartphone and said the question is where the internet lives. And the answer is that's difficult to answer. Let me search the internet for you. So it was fun, but it was a little bit narrow. The ARPANET was the first beginning of the internet. It looked like this. The cities were connected by a military institution. They were given money to connect with each other to share a calculation potential. So I moved with a friend to a different place where all the cables on the US west coast towards Asia arrive. The town is known for this wall. Everybody sticks his chewing gums on it. It's a bubble gum LA, but on the website Christam we could also look at where the cables are. So we went to this beautiful area and also looked at the traces of internet. It was nearly as beautiful as the background screen from Windows XP. If you look at it, there are similarities. But there were all the very clear signs that there were internet cables like these never dark here. And it was very well hidden in AT&T internet. There were tank protections and a small telephone connection. And I went there and I played stupid and asked if I could look in AT&T. How can I help you? Hello, this is Mohsen Hendricks. We are two journalists and poets. We want to know where the internet is. Is this here? No, I'm afraid not. Why? No, no. This is actually a secure AT&T location. We can't really have you here. So could you come out? No, no, I'm sorry. I cannot come out. Are you there at all or are you somewhere else? I'm at the station, but yeah. I can't... He stammered around and couldn't get us in, but we looked a little more around and followed the cable trail and got there to the Bloody Nose Trail, which sounded like an omen. No, we didn't find cables. We found eel, but the cables are here for California to Asia. And then after a toilet building, we found a survival camera looking at manholes where the internet cables run into the sea. There are not a lot of signs, but if you pay a little attention, you can see them. Okay, I thought maybe we found something, but I'm interested in how does the internet change places. So we went to the headquarters of Google and at the headquarters, you don't see the data centers, you don't see all the internet boxes everywhere. And I think I'm going to interpret this differently. And Google, where is Larry Page's house? I took the navigation from my Google smartphone and stood in front of a villa in the night with my rental car, and it was a dead end with multiple entrances. And suddenly there was a car and I got a little scared. Oh, let's get away. I think he had as much scare as I did. It's a Lexus and a man. And he drove fast past me. And he opened that garage automatically. So I drove to Mark Zuckerberg, which is one of his friends, and I also stood in front of a house. And I asked a guy in a Jeep, I wanted to know if this is a house where Mark lives. You can't say that. Can you tell me anything? No. All I can tell you, you can't be from this house to that house. And Mark Zuckerberg bought four extra houses to have more privacy. So the boss of Facebook wants more privacy and use 30 million to buy the four houses around his own house. There are also very sympathetic internet people. They have an old temple in San Francisco that looks like the Internet Archive logo. And Bruce is also here. Say hello. And there you can surf into the historic internet. And they host a lot of media from the free culture. And everything happens in this old kitchen and so I was understanding where the saints were in the old days. I feel like the internet we're building is somehow the global mind. And somehow we're building that as more than the pieces. It gives people the ability to do some things and scale like never possible before. So Bruce said, Bruce loves the internet and he does it differently. We think we should have one that's valuable to us, close to us. And we want to have a primary copy of the internet that has millions of books and videos and billions of pages. And it actually lives here in this building, this firmer church. And then I got interested in how this is done. And I met these people with my colleague Henrik in the background. And this is Bruce Stark. My name is Boris. I work at Google. And I am an infrastructure manager. Really in the machine room behind the search engine, the networking, the servers and everything around. So this is the guy for the Google infrastructure because Google is the really, really big data center who showed how this is done in scale. But also they made it a bit different. I asked him how it feels inside there. And he said, you feel the noise in the air. It's not quite at all. The wind goes through it. But the interesting thing is, the photos you see, they were sometimes before Google published them changed. It used to look like this. And then they made it look more beautiful to make the internet look even more beautiful in these images. And he also put deers onto the data center. But it also suggested that very... Animals are on the way. Also our data feels well. When we visit this on this camp, we can also get that. The companion that also finally is called Where the Internet Lives is how Google tries to suggest to the other people that they should trust them. These are the different places where Google has its own computers. Usually they are both close to the water and we search for many hours. And this is the center of Google in Berlin. And when we went there, there was a guy who said we mustn't take photos here. So I moved to a different place to look how the internet changes places. It's Rundstof in Österreich. In the near close to Linz something happened. This woman, I asked what happened. I hope you understand her. No, Google was... I have no idea what she says. It's like a TV station was Google. In fact, Google in this small village over Austria bought an area for computers. And that is the major mayor. And he didn't know that there were great plates for computer centers. He didn't know that this power station has changed anything other than a lot of power cables go through this area. We did not know that three data cables went through our area and we did not know that the river was that big an issue about computer centers. And now it's becoming a data habe on the information highway. You can see here that the internet and the computer centers have needed power and to classify the cables which are on the other streets. But it's also really close to the Eastern European border where there used to be a radio antenna where the Americans sent a radio towards the east. So he showed us the area with a power station. At the moment there are still plans on it but they will be Google campus there. And here you can see a concrete shaft with a lid on it. And under this, one of these data connections run, I can't open it because it's locked closed. So still I couldn't come to the internet. So we visited a hacker farmer. He is really called Hacker Farmer but it's coming from the cutting of wood which is Hacken in German and not from hacking in the computer sense. And the hacker farmer sold his ground to Google and now he is a millionaire and he has a tractor which drives over the fields using GPS. And Google helped him doing that and on this field, Google board maybe tractors will be run there. This tractor has a GPS connection that really is really exact. And the crazy thing is that by Google coming to that place a lot changed. In this town for like seven years the data center has not been built but a lot of people children's kindergarten where an additional English teacher and you can hear that English is everywhere. Children sing about internet and iPhones and it's a great thing. They sing a song, an English song about bananas in the sky. That's some of the songs they sing about and now we go to a different place, Gibraltar. Gibraltar is also a well-known place so we went there and in this cliff there are tunnels with streets and especially a special law that allows certain companies to do certain things. And here he says Gibraltar is certainly a place where some of the internet lives. A lot of gambling and gaming. Everything that has something to do with casino or bets that lives in Gibraltar. In Gibraltar there are a lot of gambling companies because there is very little tax on gambling and it's quite legal in opposite to other European countries because it's owned by Great Britain. So it is a European gambling hole. Sometimes there are places where the rent is as high as in New York where a lot of Eastern European people live and we were allowed to enter a tunnel in an old atom or bunker so we go deeper and deeper into this tunnel where certain missions were run during the Second World War. So security checks your names, Henrik and Muritz also or the friend. That is four or five hundred meters deep into the cliff and it looks like a ship because it was built by a marine and we looked at the places where World War missions were run and Eisenhower himself lived in there for six months. Miss Churchill also lived there for six weeks. The two of them lived down here for the very peak decision making time of the year World War II. These two lived here in this bunker and now the high security data centers live here. Pictures you had to enter a pin code and about like this it looks and sounds like this. That is of course only a demo picture. So I finally found where the internet lies and it is so boring and I asked again where is the internet so before I talked about cable TAT14 the C cable in the first publication and in the radio and I contacted that cable technician who showed me a lot of photos this is in north this is in silt where deep C cable goes in it looks like this and this and here you can go look for it yourself this is how it looks when the internet goes into the sea this is not very spectacular and I believe the internet I don't think the internet lives in the technique but the internet lives in the heart of the humans who use it. This is John Perry Ballon who was an EFF activist and we visited him and he showed us cat photos and he has written the patient of the independence of the internet this is a fry from activists these are also internet activists that you have seen on the scene but just before me and this is also this is the internet we are the internet we use the internet and we put stuff into it and we take care of the internet and for that thank you very much