Obligatory link to Neal Stephenson's Wired article from 1996, in which "the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three contin

Obligatory link to Neal Stephenson's Wired article from 1996, 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": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html