[supernova87a]

An almost mandatory entertaining article, whenever topics about cables, ocean floor, submarines come up:

https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

"Mother Earth, Mother Board" (stories about laying undersea cable and the history of wiring the Earth up"

(or unpaywalled: https://archive.is/ICkHe)

[danuker]

> wiring the Earth up

Reminds me of the intro to The Expanse, where they wire up some celestial bodies as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y4wuVfV5G4

The song also gives me the chills.

[absoflutely]

Sadly the unpaywalled version is also paywalled

[supernova87a]

Oh, sorry about that. If you roll back a couple versions it's here:

https://archive.is/19Msi

[Davy_Crockett]

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome