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Every subsea cable service interruption story is an excuse to share one of my favorite pieces of long-form technical history: Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mot
by MengerSponge 1y ago
Every subsea cable service interruption story is an excuse to share one of my favorite pieces of long-form technical history: Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board:
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497098
- staplung 1y agoThe Wired article is paywalled now unfortunately. Here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210107003422/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210107003422/https://www.wired... The Verge also has a great article which is more recent and more specifically about a repair ship: https://web.archive.org/web/20240422050805/https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships https://web.archive.org/web/20240422050805/https://www.theve...