Recently, many foreign netizens have discovered many earth-shattering secrets that have been hidden in history after serious "archaeology".
For example, Minecraft, a very popular sandbox game in recent years, actually appeared as early as 1945.
Precious historical photographs of Minrcraft characters personally on the battlefield have even been found.
Then there is the Personal Computer, the computer, which has been used since 1560, as evidenced by the oil paintings of the time.
I saw this young girl holding a computer host, but her face did not show any expression of joy, presumably she did not like to play games.
There are many similar things, such as the 1832 AF1 (Nike's well-known sneaker series), led by the first president of the United States, George W. Bush. Washington spoke out.
In 1893, the Tesla Model X had become an essential travel companion for aristocrats.
Seeing this, I think everyone has also understood that these so-called "archaeological" results are the masterpieces of netizens' P figures.
Such terriers have recently become very popular abroad, and they have a collective name called Ngram meme.
Ngram refers to the Google Ngram Viewer tool.
Google Ngram Viewer is a project of Google Books, which can be called madness.
Why? Because in this project, Google scanned more than 8.11 million books published between 1500 and 2008, covering 8 languages, 56% of which were in English, which accounted for 6% of all published books in human history.
After scanning the books, Google performed Optical Character Recongnition (OCR) and converted the contents of the books into text for storage and analysis, totaling more than 1.4 billion pieces of data.
It should be noted that all this content comes from published books, and the information on the Internet is not included.
As long as the user enters a word in Google Ngram Viewer, they can query its usage and frequency over time, and use this to roughly determine what happened to society at that time.
To put it bluntly, if something is more important in a certain era, the more frequently it will appear.
It also supports multiple searches, and when searching, just use commas to distinguish words, you can form an obvious contrast chart.
For example, this search result indicates the frequency of books in the United States, Great Britain, China, France, Germany, the Soviet Union/Russia since 1800.
It can be seen from this that Britain and France were at first the "protagonists" of the world, and then gradually declined; while the United States gradually rose and reached its peak during World War II; Germany had a peak in the two world wars, for reasons that everyone understands.
Russia is a short-lived rise and rapid decline, while China has maintained a relatively stable appearance rate.
Looking at the following chart, the search for the words "technology" and "religion" are respectively.
Before 1950 or so, religion basically crushed science to death, and then completely overtaken.
By the same token, we can use this search tool to explore the rise and fall of brands.
If you want to search for synonyms of a word together when searching, you can connect them with a + sign.
Heaven and Hell search results,
In recent years, Hell has surpassed Heaven
Since English accounts for a large proportion, the above search results are in English, if you want to search for some Chinese-related things, it will be more objective to use Chinese.
From this table, you can see at a glance the importance of eating for Chinese people.
You see, this tool is actually quite interesting, and it is also an academic weapon.
But such a "serious" thing, why has it inexplicably become an Internet terrier?
It is estimated that some student parties are too tired when writing papers to check the materials, and suddenly want to search for some content that has nothing to do with academics to relax.
Some people found that the word "Minecraft" did not appear before 1920, but it ushered in two peaks in 1945 and 1960, even more frequently than the current occurrence.
Because minecraft is so famous as a sandbox game, most people now think of Minecraft, and even Google Translate acquiesced.
So the massive appearance of Minecraft in 1945 created a strange sense of contrast, making people wonder what Minecraft would be like at that time, and then there were photos of Minecraft pixel characters throwing themselves into the battlefield.
When someone put this search result along with their own P picture on the reddit forum, the netizens' brain holes can no longer be contained.
Then came Shrek in 1711.
PUBG (1505).
There are even Marvel superheroes around 1600...
The reason for this misunderstanding is actually very easy to understand, after all, many English words are used as personal names, or they contain certain meanings.
For example, minecraft means what should have been a mining technique, but it was normal to appear in previous books.
It's just that after the game "Minecraft", everyone's impression of this word has formed a mindset.
The same is true for Tesla, after all, the man Nicholas · Tesla is a very famous scientist, and it is reasonable and logical to appear a few times in the book.
Of course, I don't think that the people of these P-charts will not know the original meaning of those words, it is more likely that they are too idle...
Author: Xiaofa Editor: Xiao Xinxin
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I know, a Google artifact that can't stop playing: Ngram
Google Ngram Viewer