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Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#21

This is pretty basic but kinda neat. A good way to browse the fact books like a website. Definitely could use more features but imo superior than flipping through a PDF.

Originally, my plan was just to create the archive, but I have expanded the scope, lol.

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#23
post #19

This is pretty basic but kinda neat. A good way to browse the fact books like a website. Definitely could use more features but imo superior than flipping through a PDF.

Hey, what features would you like to see??

Hi, thanks for this! Not sure if you're aware that clicking Australia goes to American Samoa, similar issue with some others that I encountered (Bahamas -> Burkina faso).

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#24

Hmm. It's kind of weird, because I think I actually used it in the 1990s, probably shortly before Wikipedia emerged. Ever since Wikipedia, I don't think I used the CIA world Factbook much at all, so in a way I guess this partly explains why the website is now defunct. But I am a tiny bit sad that it is gone, if only for a piece of nostalgia from the 1990s era. I think we need to be careful - yes, wikipedia has that i…

World facts provided by the CIA, too, have intrinsic quality issues. I'm not too worried!

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Site loads very slowly for me. Tried various devices and networks. Same for a friend of mine overseas.

Will scale the website

To clarify, I am a shill for fly.io and wanted to get you to spend more money by scaling it up. The site loaded instantaneously on the first try, so fast I thought it was local.

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#30

Hmm. It's kind of weird, because I think I actually used it in the 1990s, probably shortly before Wikipedia emerged. Ever since Wikipedia, I don't think I used the CIA world Factbook much at all, so in a way I guess this partly explains why the website is now defunct. But I am a tiny bit sad that it is gone, if only for a piece of nostalgia from the 1990s era. I think we need to be careful - yes, wikipedia has that i…

Wikipedia has some consistency issues and often linked to the CIA Factbook as well.
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