it's called the wood wide web (seriously)

Scientists are so adorable

Who knews the scope and breadth of the reach of Al Gore, internet inventor, conceiver of the series of tubes paradaigm. Perhaps he has a tube all the way back 400 million years ago amongst his tube series

https://www.pellcenter.org/did-al-gore-invent-the-internet/

I love the idea that fungi house the Polises of Greg Egan.