http://mhannah2.wix.com/londonunderground MAPS PAGE: There are countless different historical maps of the London Underground. Early maps reflect the fact that the now conglomerate of lines and tracks which is the London Underground was actually a series of competing railway companies which sprang up over London in the late 1800’s. These maps show that these competing […]
I looked back on the history of Google’s homepage. Unsurprisingly, the website hasn’t changed at all. No seriously. Not at all. Google beta looks slightly different: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/ I like when they added the whole jobs search thing: http://web.archive.org/web/19991129021746/http://www13.google.com/ They took away the jobs postings, and it looks pretty modern….: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815052943/http://www.google.com/ They got rid of the […]
So, I used Google ngrams several times in the past few weeks to see which terminology for the London Underground appear most often in print. Very interestingly, these were my results. I was a little surprised at first when “Metropolitan Railway” had the most hits historically. Of course, it tapers off after 1935, which is […]
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