Good reading...

I came across a neat site that rates magazine articles in order of their popularity:

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php

Here's a couple of them that pertain to "internet" technology that may be on the long side, but I think are worth reading:

Laying of Underground cables in the sea:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

Phone "phreaking":
http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html
I was amazed that such underground knowledge was being covered in such detail in a magazine like Esquire in 1971. Even today I'm not sure many people know what phone phreaking is or how it worked.