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This is slightly outside of the 1993 to 1995 range—being December 1996—but I think the best story ever in Wired might be "Mother Earth, Mother Board" (by Neal S

by schoen 7y ago

This is slightly outside of the 1993 to 1995 range—being December 1996—but I think the best story ever in Wired might be "Mother Earth, Mother Board" (by Neal Stephenson, about the laying of the FLAG undersea fiber optic cable). https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ Unfortunately, the online copy no longer has the images! Edit: I just noticed that Stephenson gives GPS fixes to absurd precision (10 microarcminutes, or about 1.6 cm—on the ocean with a civilian GPS receiver in 1996, before GPS Selective Availability was turned off).

vageli 7y ago
> Edit: I just noticed that Stephenson gives GPS fixes to absurd precision (10 microarcminutes, or about 1.6 cm—on the ocean with a civilian GPS receiver in 1996, before GPS Selective Availability was turned off). It would seem GPS Selective Availability has been disabled since 2000 [0]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System#Selective_availability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Globa...