Eine Lieblingsgeschichte stammt aus der WIRED im Dezember 1996. Ein sehr langer Text wie er heute kaum mehr gedruckt werden würde:

FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history.