Tag: Americas
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The first websites: how the web spread around the world
From one server at CERN in December 1990 to 83 countries with a recorded website by 2000. I coded Wikipedia’s list of 119 websites founded before 1995 and added 2,208 more from Wikidata: the web began with physicists and was soon overwhelmingly American, at least in the English-language memory of it.
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Lost at sea: is the Bermuda Triangle worse than its traffic?
I placed 472 famous disappearances on the map and tested every sea against its shipping. The Bermuda Triangle has 8 against 2.8 expected, but its neighbours run just as high, and most of its famous cases happened outside it.
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Where every film was shot: film cities, foreign productions and James Bond on one map
I mapped the filming locations of 23,468 films in Wikidata: Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris lead, Canada hosts the most foreign productions, and the 25 Eon Bond films visited 36 countries and territories.
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How fast did news travel? Lincoln, Custer, the Titanic and Pearl Harbor in America’s newspapers
I followed four great stories through 13,233 digitised issues of 936 American newspapers. A daily printed Lincoln’s death the next morning, just as fast as the Titanic or Pearl Harbor. What held news back was the weekly press day.
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Where games are set, and where they are made
A world map of 6,691 video games tied to real places: where each is set and where its studio is based. New York leads, Japan to the United States is the busiest route, and the Moon beats Mars.
