history of japan
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as an entertaining quick history, and as a stylistic reference or joke in threads about history and the creator's other videos.
What it is
Bill Wurtz's fast, comedic and musical run through the whole history of Japan in nine minutes.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2016 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends klez · 2017-06 · on “History of the entire world, i guess [video]”
Those jingles are funny the first few times, but they get annoying pretty fast. Anyway, happy to see this linked here. He also did a similar video for the history of Japan [0], quite entertaining. [0] [this video]
Cites po · 2016-02 · on “Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]”
Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: [LINK] There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: [LINK] It includes this awesome Palin one: [LINK] P.S. In case you missed it this is the History of Japan one again: [this video] If you watch it again, you can hear him using that technique of harmonizing with his own spoken voice in the background music of that video.