A Wikiwandering adventure
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Lisa and I have been referring to it as “Wikiwandering.” It’s when you look up something on Wikipedia and wind up navigating the website for hours, clicking link after link, as curiosity determines. Don’t tell me you haven’t found yourself on the Zeppelin entry after four hours on Wikipedia that started with the Freemasonry entry. (Uh, I swear I didn’t do that!)
The only rule here is that I have to follow links; I can’t just decide at some point to search for something completely unrelated.
Anyway…. Without further ado, behold! My most recent Wikiwandering adventure
EDIT: I surfed through this list over the course of three days. So, no, I have not just been wasting my time on the internet.
- Apollo program
- National Air and Space Museum
- Spacecraft
- Starship
- Project Daedalus
- Fusion rocket
- Project Longshot
- International Space Station
- Expedition 17
- Progress spacecraft
- Soyuz launch vehicle
- Baikonur Cosmodro
- Nedelin catastrophe
- Commonwealth of Independent State
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
- Guiana Space Centre
- Paris Fire Brigade
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Republic of Genoa
- Historical states of Italy
- Etruscan civilization
- Etruscan mythology
- Hermes
- Linear B
- Linear A
- Mycenaean Greece
- Bronze Age
- Three-age system
- Iron Age
- Stone Age
- Last glacial period
- Quaternary glaciation
- Post-glacial rebound
- Kvarken
- Thames Barrier
- Datum
- Geodesy
- Surveying
- Cadastre
- Map
- Dymaxion map
- Buckminster Fuller
- Dymaxion house
- Geodesic dome
- Tensegrity
- Kingdome
- Dome
- Hagia Sophia
- Iconostasis
- Icon (religious)
- Catacombs of Rome
- Rome
- Enclave and exclave
- Kaliningrad
- List of countries that border only one other country
- Oresund Bridge
- Separation barrier
- Adhamiya
- Belfast Peace Lines
- Kuwait-Iraq barrier
- United States–Mexico barrier
- Via Anelli Wall
- Cyprus
- Berlin Wall
- Checkpoint Charlie
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- International maritime signal flags
- Procedure word
- Radio station
- Crystal radio receiver
- Call sign (radio)
- Aviator call sign
- Douglas Corrigan [clever...]
- Howard Hughes
- Hughes H-1 Racer
- Constant speed propeller
- Variable pitch propeller
- Smithsonian Institution
- Pacific Railroad Surveys
- Northern Pacific Railway
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
- Snake River
- Lower Granite Lock and Dam
- Bonneville Power Administration
- Columbia Generating Station
- Hanford Site
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Starlight Information Visualization System
- United States Atomic Energy Commission
- Manhattan Project
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- National Road
- The Pentagon
- Cross Florida Barge Canal
- Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- Space Task Group
- Langley Research Center
- Lunar Landing Research Facility
- Lunar Landing Research Vehicle
- Apollo program
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Linear A was so much cooler than Linear B.
What’s disturbing is that I know what both of those are because I’ve been on similar journeys.
Comment by torhatestheinternet May 21, 2008 @ 5:21 pmI borrowed your computer for a few minutes when you were on Rome (No. 52), and I took a sidewander to “Tor Vergata” because I wanted to know what it meant, but it never had a translation. I did learn through F12 that “tor” means a rocky peak.
Comment by Lisa Waananen May 21, 2008 @ 8:02 pm[...] whether their friends have written any new blog posts? Are they checking Facebook daily? Are they Wikiwandering just because it’s [...]
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