4 responses to “History isn’t what it used to be…”
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History viewed through tag clouds
Antony Mayfield’s History ain’t what it used to be blog post points to a stunning use of tag clouds in showing the emphasis of various US presidential speeches from 1776 to the present day. Chirag Mehta is the man behind
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I used Gopher to write a paper about potential nuclear proliferation in South Asia back in 1992. Gopher, done by University of Minnesota, if memory serves. And then SuperGopher on the Mac. Graphical and everything.
Amazing how far we’ve come, especially recently.
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Ahh. Gopher. I’d forgotten about using that.
Antony: a similar application is the use of Google Earth images to track the effects of possible near-history mega tsunamis: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html?ex=1321160400&en=35b395ffd080eb47&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Wow! This is extremely interesting stuff – Mark Higginson’s insightful Preidential cloud is fascinating and more insightful than any text book I ever read, and a great concept in alternative History Mapping 2.0?!
The historical layers on Google are also a gem of a find – if I was an archaeologist I’d be excavating myself off into a deep trench somewhere…
On a lighter note, can we finally tell Tony Robinson and his ‘Time Team’ to piss off with their ‘geo-phys’, and point them towards a virtual world where they can bicker in West Country accents on VOIP and leave our living rooms in peace and the history to a newly informed & tooled up global community?
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