Interesting Maps

mikhail wrote: »

I can comprehend the thinking, so I didn't comment. Obviously, it's of local interest.


I guess so, but I can't say I have any sense of there being a Cornish identity as late as that. In 1918, Cornish was already long extinct as a first language.

I dunno , they see themselves as english ,kind of in the same way as the english or welsh see themselves as british ,
A rural cornish person going to exeter for the day would still tell you that he's going to england ..

Seth Brundle wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GeoForTheFuture/status/1316096063720296451?s=19

You could replace that map with this one, making things a lot simpler:

retalivity wrote: »

For Donegal/Tyrconnell, Arranmore and Tory were not planted, in fact there wasnt much land planted west of Letterkenny, thats where all the Irish that remained after the flight of the earls were dispossessed to. Land is/was way too boggy and poor for the planters, so they never bothered with it. Similar story with Mid-derry/tyrone, and the glens of Antrim.
Hence why it is also, still one of the strongest gaeltachts in the country (Donegal), and there is a strong Gael presence in the other areas as well.

Linguistic setup in Ulster in 1800.

Ulster Scots is a language? Hmmm. Let's see...

Dae A need a new aerial?
Gin ye hae guid analogue reception the nou, ye'r like no tae need tae replace yer ruiftap or set-tap aerial for the cheenge-ower – thare nae sic thing as a 'deegital aerial'. But gin ye hae ill analogue reception the nou, ye’ll mebbe need tae replace it.
Find oot by gaun til the aerial-pruifer on Teletext page 284. Anither wey is tae wait until efter the cheenge-ower for tae see if yer pictur's affect.

Doesn't compute.

forgottenhills wrote: »

Why have they left out half of Cavan on that interesting map of Ulster? Do you have a link to the original (non Reddit) source of this map?

Sorry, I just saw it on Reddit.

IAMAMORON wrote:

For the record I doubt there were any phuckers speaking Irish outside of Donegal before 1850. Just saying.

I think people spoke Irish in many places before 1850, it was after that they the areas away from the western seaboard were squeezed.

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Homo sapiens population density

Covid-19 is taking note and says thank you.

Back then they had Imps, now we have Trolls.

Nexytus wrote: »

The true size of New Zealand

Ok that surprised me ... In my head it was about the length of Britain .... And I pretty much did the length of NZ ,( not in one go though )

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

(found on Reddit)
In 1973, 40 nodes connected 45 computers. This was the entire internet at the time. This chart was found in 2016 amongst some old papers

Seeing the PDP references on that map brought back memories. A university library I worked in briefly in the mid 80's, had a small dedicated room to house a DEC PDP-11/40 mainframe computer to handle the library catalogue and the book lending system. One day there was a technician pulling it apart and apparently there had been a rare head crash involving one of the swapable disc packs which contained multiple hard disc platters. The drive the pack mounted to was about the size of a washing machine and a pack of multiple large discs only a storage capacity of a few tens of megabytes.

The tech kindly let me souvenier one of the disks from the damaged pack, which you can see here:



This disc probably only held about a megabyte. The relatively tiny Micro SD card I have balanced on top of it could hold 1 TB. The mind boggles at how far things have come.

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Homo sapiens population density

cnocbui wrote: »

Covid-19 is taking note and says thank you.

Way to go Seth, ya doingus !