60 years of “hipsters .
It instantly searches these books as far back as the 1500's and maps their amount of usage over time. Sometimes this yields interesting results, like words that come and go into language with different meanings.
"hipster"
More people were using the word 'hipster' in the 1950's than they are now.
So basically, the word was, like, so much cooler before everyone started using it... like in the 1940's.
"cocaine"
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. People in 1909 knew it too.
"Seattle"
Seems like Seattle has a moment in the popular imagination every few decades. But the "grunge" era is when people really started writing about the city... and then lost interest around 2001.
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