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relevant: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII "@RealTimeWWII is a Twitter feed describing the events of World War II, created by B
by albemuth 12y ago
relevant: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII "@RealTimeWWII is a Twitter feed describing the events of World War II, created by British historian and Oxford grad Alwyn Collinson(...)."
- IgorPartola 12y agoThis is pretty cool. It'd be interesting to have a personal service set up around this such that it starts sending messages just to you with "news" updates. I briefly looked at these tweets, but since I didn't follow @RealTimeWWII when it first started, I cannot get the full effect. More broadly, I'd love to see the original coverage for a few historical events. My most recent curiosity is the Watergate scandal. What was on TV at the time? What were people saying? I know what the scandal "was" but I don't know how people reacted to it. I was I could in some fashion reproduce it at the time and see what was going on.
- delinka 12y agoHistory as a Service. Scheduled notifications about historical events relayed in "virtual real time" from a start date of your choosing. Like a DVR (or Netflix streaming) for history.
- Raphmedia 12y agoAre they basing it on the right dates and wrong year, or is it simply starting from the creating of the page?
- omh 12y agoThey're using the right dates. So today's tweets are for August 1942.
- jzymbaluk 12y agoAccording to the Wikipedia page[1], "Collinson [the author] began the feed in late August 2011, to coincide with the start of World War II with the German Invasion of Poland in September 1939. He has tweeted the events of the war as they happened on each date and time exactly 72 years earlier." [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@RealTimeWWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@RealTimeWWII