March 9, 2021 - The first Croatia corona map hit the Internet one year ago today - how different the world looked back then.
One day, sometime in the future, when the pace of life slows down and there is time to reflect, we may begin to piece together the phenomenon that was 2020, and its milestones of constant change. Facebook Memories is going to be a very interesting tool in the years to come, as memories of various stages of 2020 flash back into our lives.
And today is the one-year anniversary of a little piece of Croatian COVID-19 history - the publishing of the first Croatia corona map on the Internet.
As with most of the best ideas at TCN, it had nothing to with me. Gustavo was working wonders generating revenue from Adsense as a time all sources of income were cancelling. He did an amazing job and would feed me hot topics as suggestions.
Apparently, corona maps were becoming a search thing globally. Why not do an article with 'Croatia corona map' as the keyword?
My design skills are on a par with my cooking skills, so after Gustavo's brilliant idea, Mrs TCN took over and came up with the first Croatia corona map. It was a huge hit, with more than 60,000 visits in the first few days from memory. A couple of weeks later, Index introduced theirs, then the official Koronavirus website went live, and so our job was done.
Amazing to look back, isn't it. Just 12 cases total, no deaths and no deaths with the neighbours either.
Italy, however, was a different story, and there was some discussion internally at TCN whether or not to included in the map. In the end, I decided against (something I would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight).
The aim of the map was to inform people how close or distant they were from live cases. All that was reported in the international media was that Croatia had 12 cases. It was hard (back then) to see where. By adding the airports to the map, people could see how close or far they would be from live cases.
A small moment in Croatian COVID history. How will the 2022 Croatia corona map look a year from now? Hopefully it will not even exist.
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