We used to play a drinking game in our dorm called Wikipedia in 30 seconds. Someone would pick a specific topic/article and you had to get there using only links and random article, in 30 seconds.

If you failed you had to drink. If you succeeded, everyone else had to drink. I once succeeded to get to Ghadaffi by starting at breast cancer.

We played on a projector while blasting funky mid 2000s tunes.

If you like the Wikipedia rabbit hole, check out the Wiki game on your given app store. The basic idea is that you have two separate topics, and you have try to link to the second from the first in as few clicks and time as possible. It’s actually quite fun and you end up reading about some really random stuff.

RIP John Dunsworth. You were the liquor.

Just another little linky-poo

I’m extremely prone to this. On several occasions, I’ve looked up a word using kindles built in library, then see an interesting related word, then I see an unfamiliar word on the same page, then there’s a link about pronunciation, before, finally, I think to myself “Motherfucker, have you been reading the dictionary for an hour?”

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See also tvtropes.org

In high school I used to sit there reading article after article on Wikipedia about space and physics. By the end of the night I would have like 40 tabs open on my computer trying to learn everything about space.

This happened to me a few days ago. I went from looking at the map of the City of Miami, which then led me looking at The Bahamas, which then led me to looking at all the small islands that make up The Bahamas. Then I wondered why the largest island, Andros (technically 3 islands really close together), only had like ten percent of the total population, yet Nassau (their capital) was tiny in comparison but had like 80% of the population. This led me to reading all about the history of The Bahamas and poverty, which then led me to West Virginia.

When the tabs start to pile up so much they lose their labels.

I donated for the very first time last month. I couldn’t feel prouder of myself

Me after being on Walking Dead wiki for 6 hours even though I don’t even watch that show.

I have this Wikipedia game I like to play that I’ll call “Conspiracy.” Basically, load a random page and find your way to Richard Nixon as soon as possible. My strat is find a way near the United States and you’ll find him lurking in a corner somewhere.

All roads lead to Nixon (mostly because every road can get you anywhere within a few pages)

I go on Wikipedia to look up a region in central Europe and an hour later find myself reading about obscure events in the 30 years war.