Perfect occasion to point to the absolutely wonderful article "Mother Earth Mother Board" in which 'the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth' - Neal Stephenson.
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Perfect occasion to point to the absolutely wonderful article "Mother Earth Mother Board" in which 'the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth' - Neal Stephenson.
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
(Quite a long read though: over 40k words.)
And this should be the cable project that Neal Stephenson described: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/flag-euro...
I love that article.