A View of World History Through Wikipedia

See history unfold through Wikipedia through space and time. Every mention of a location or date anywhere in any article across all of Wikipedia was extracted and each location connected to the closest date to place it on a map. All locations mentioned in an article together with the same year are connected together. Thus, what you see is what Wikipedia had to say about each year 1800-present, which locations were mentioned the most, which locations were mentioned alongside each other, etc. All done using an SGI UV Shared Memory System. Images courtesy of Kalev Leetaru. Check out the SGI Wikipedia Project home page on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/sgiglobal/app...

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if you can manage to pause it, check out how china lights up for 1949 :)

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y u do dis

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