Great scroll until you reach the 1930’s and start getting more and more “Image restricted due to copyright” and have to start clicking through to external sites. I will bookmark it though, for a day when I can be bothered to open each photo individually.

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That, and the 30s/40s get fucking daaaark

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True, though you generally expect that going in. Definitely wasn’t expecting an increasing number of photos to just not be there.

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Very US centric list and Fuck copyright, but fascinating nonetheless

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Why is it so US centric? Did nothing happen anywhere else in the world involving other countries?

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It’s written in english wikipedia, on which last time I checked over 50% of contributers live in the US

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Dang. Maybe some people in other countries should do something about it? Giving me the same vibes as Trump warning to back out of funding from NATO causing Europeans to side-eye each other.

Wikipedia is headquartered in San Francisco. Imagine if Trump mandates the non-profit through Executive Order to force Wikipedia to charge money for non-Americans to access all their hard work?

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Jesus that’s a rabbit hole and a half. Thanks for that. I loved every minute exploring that list.

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“Image restricted due to copyright” should not exist for something that apparently is an important thing in societal knowledge.

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Good wiki hole to fall down.

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