US map, according to TV shows:


 

America, according to Europeans:


 

US map, according to a New Yorker:


 

US infographic, per America in my book:

“America in My Book” by Haley Nahman

 

The USA, according to Ohio:

by taintedsilence (see a larger version here)

 

US map, according to the movies:

by Redditor subtonix

 

American map, according to college allegiances:


 

The USA, according to Twitter:

Created by Column Five, via geekosystem

From the amusingly retro-minded people at squirrel-monkey.com come these three videos, showing some of today’s most popular sites — Facebook, Twitter and Google — as they might have appeared in the eighties and/or nineties.

If Facebook had been invented in the ’90s

“Wonders of the World Wide Web” on the topic of “The Facebook,” which is a “digital online internet computer web sightseeing” that you can open with your web site browser, a program that allows you to visit the world… on-line. Open with Netscape Navigator! (Narrated by actress Kinna McInroe.)

 

If Twitter had been invented in the ’80s

Someone’s loading something new and cool from their 5-1/4-inch floppy disc in the A:\ drive!

 

If Google had been around in the eighties

A beautiful DOS environment in true 1980s style — and the noisy modem connection is a nice plus. (Google actually were a ’90s company — they got going in 1998.)