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AI · November 21, 2025

Globe of History

I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into history — not a database, but a way to instantly sense density and continuity over time. Stack / Process Python for scraping structured event data from Wikipedia/Wikidata Gemini 2.0 Flash for AI-based enrichment and multi-stage verification Mapbox GL JS + React (Vite)…

Globe of History launched on November 21, 2025 with 189 votes, #148 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Explore battles, philosophers, inventions and more on an interactive 3D map. Filter by era and category to see how history unfolds across the globe. Powered by a custom AI data factory. **Desktop only for now**

Explore 6,000 years of battles, inventions, philosophers and more... on an interactive 3D globe.

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built Globe of History — an interactive 3D visualization of 6,000 years of human events, mapped onto the Earth’s surface. It includes 5,000+ data points covering wars, inventions, assassinations, natural disasters, and philosophers — spanning 4000 BCE → 2025 CE. The main goal was to build a visual entry point into…

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