It took me a few days of fiddling around with shell scripts and node.js, but I finally managed to wrestle Wikipedia’s syntax to the ground. I now have a chronologically ordered list, all in one place, of every historical event that the Wikipedia community considers to be significant enough to mention.
The list preserves all of the links to the original Wikipedia articles. You can check it out HERE.
Now the real fun begins. Anybody can use what I created as a resource just by viewing source and copying that from their browser.
The question is, how do you go through it, filter it, visualize it, etc., to suit your purposes? Personally, I am interested in creating landscapes of history that I can interact with in VR.
VR provides an opportunity to make a kind of immersive memory palace out of history. There are all sorts of unanswered questions about how best to organize such a memory palace.
But that’s why it’s fun.