A good story (that does off script at points), but the pictures are great and the ability to zoom in for detail is also great.

I recently watched the Jon Bois documentary "Fool Time" which relates the story of the men involved in the development of telegraph lines to the 90s sitcom Home Improvement. It's an excellent watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyBSrQodnI

NPR's Throughline podcast did a nice dive into this subject in October as well: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5582393

Mandatory Neal Stephenson article in Wired on subsea cables [0], as previously discussed [1]. Also now available in the original magazine thanks to Archive.org [2].

[0] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30342302

[2] https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-decemb...