THE VIDEO SHELF · world history
history of the entire world, i guess
A fast, absurdist 19-minute animated run through the history of the whole world, narrated and scored by Bill Wurtz in his distinctive style. It compresses millennia of events into jokes, songs and quick visuals.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters list it among favorite long-form, info-dense YouTube videos and as a representative piece of Wurtz's quirky creativity.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- bill wurtz
- Topic
- world history
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
smartereveryday I love (particularly the enthusiasm), numberphile too. Anything (not a channel name, just anything) by Tom Scott, his recent gameshow has been pretty good as it's like Only Connect but I've got a better chance of answering the questions. Huge backlog of things too …
IanCal on Hacker News · 2018-06
In Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?Everything from 3 blue 1 brown: [LINK] Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics): [LINK] history of the entire world, i guess: [VIDEO] TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K): [LINK] Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason …
Isinlor on Hacker News · 2021-12
In Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?Journey to the End of Time - [LINK] Veritasium on Thermite reaction - [LINK] Problems of a Shared Office - [LINK] History of the entire world, I guess - [VIDEO] Colin Furze Underground Activities - [LINK] Future of Reasoning - [LINK] Sex in Trek - …
purgedreality on Hacker News · 2024-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
