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Re:The world map that reboots your brain by triyambakam on Saturday August 20, 2022 @01:27PM (#32533707)
As another piece of data, I grew up in New York and had never heard about the Mercator projection until an adult.
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Re:The world map that reboots your brain by RosanaAnaDana on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:04PM (#32533969)
You still grew up seeing it constantly, even if you didn't know what it was.
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Re:The world map that reboots your brain by triyambakam on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:53PM (#32536450)
Yeah, but my point is that it was never explained as being inaccurate, or that there were other projections.
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