from Randall Munroe of xkcd (click through to embiggen here and here) which are incredibly only three years apart—with the latter being already over a dozen years old. Not sure whether it would be exactly a “fun” exercise to make a contemporary version in a unipolar world of nonoverlapping magisteria that doesn’t respect sovereignty and stokes civil war and internecine fighting but it does show that the downfall and demise of platforms is nothing new. synchronoptica
one year ago: Come on Eileen
two years ago: St Donatus, letters postmarked from the Moon, more dazzle camo, an unpopular emoji plus “Marriage Trees”
three years ago: more on the end of a naval tradition plus wine windows are making a comeback
four years ago: flying through the Arc d’Triomphe (1919), the Fevres Ranger plus a privately-funded Moon Shot
five years ago: everything apps, a climate tipping-point, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s FBI files plus the US blocks trade with Iran