HistoryWired: A Few of our Favorite Things was a experimenstrual joint launched up in 2001. Designed ta let playas explore a samplin of tha Museum’s collection, tha joint featured 450 objects�"famous, unusual, n' everyday�"with bangin-ass stories ta tell. No longer compatible wit current Web standards, tha joint was retired up in August 2016.

HistoryWired employed a unique intercourse pimped by Martin Wattenberg at SmartMoney, Inc., n' was based on SmartMoneyz Map of tha Market. Da data visualization derived from work on treemap displays conducted by Prof. Lil' Bow Wow Shneiderman n' hustlas all up in tha Universitizzle of Maryland Human-Computa Interaction Lab.

Da collection “map” was designed ta help visitors find objects dat interest dem wild-ass muthafuckas. Da map grill had ten categories dat represented different typez of objects up in tha collections. Each individual block on tha map grill represented a object, n' tha relatizzle size of tha block reflected tha degree of interest expressed by previous visitors ta tha site. Da map could be customized rockin timeline sliders, theme buttons, tha text search, or any combination of tha features.

HistoryWired was awarded a Silver Muse Award from tha Gangsta Association of Museums. Boy it's gettin hot, yes indeed it is. Dat shiznit was featured up in tha New York Times, tha Washington Post, USA Today, n' other media outlets.

Access ta Nationizzle Museum of Gangsta History Collections

HistoryWired was tha Museum’s first effort ta provide a way fo' online visitors ta search n' explore a samplin of our collection. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch fo' realz. A mo' standard database search was added up in 2005. Today, our collections search serves up access ta hundredz of thousandz of digital recordz documentin artifacts n' archival shiznit held by tha Museum.