What’s new
What changed in the Versed library, newest first.
Ancient Egypt, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from Narmer to the Grand Egyptian Museum, plain sentences, and every quiz is in the text.
- Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece, rewritten: twelve chapters in order from the Bronze Age collapse to the Marbles, and every quiz is in the text.
- Ancient Greece
Classic rock, rewritten: ten chapters from Rocket 88 to the catalog sales, in order, and every quiz is in the text.
- Classic rock
Horror, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the Villa Diodati to the 2025 record share, and every quiz is in the text.
- Horror
Crypto, rewritten: nine chapters, now in order from Satoshi’s paper to the ETFs, and every quiz is in the text.
- Crypto
Memes & internet culture, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from what a meme is to how to talk about one, and every quiz is in the text. Critic round 1: the word is thirteen years older than the web, Giphy at $315 million, bots at 51 percent in 2024, and a source row for every dated fact.
- Memes & internet culture
K-pop, rewritten: ten chapters from a last-place 1992 TV score to a cartoon group’s Oscar, in order, and every quiz is in the text.
- K-pop
Taylor Swift, rewritten: ten chapters from Music Row to the 2025 buyback, in order, and every quiz is in the text.
- Taylor Swift
Superhero movies, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from the 1941 serials to Gunn’s Superman, and every quiz is in the text.
- Superhero movies
Anime, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from Tezuka’s below-cost pricing to the karaoke chart, and every quiz is in the text.
- Anime
Star Wars, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the Flash Gordon failure to the bar bet, and every quiz is in the text.
- Star Wars
The Roman Empire, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from Romulus to 1453, plain sentences, and every quiz is in the text.
- The Roman Empire
World War II, rewritten: thirteen chapters, now in order from Versailles to the surrender, plain sentences, and every quiz is in the text.
- World War II
Philosophy, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from what the subject is to how to talk about it, every school argued from its own side, and every quiz in the text.
- Philosophy
The 2008 crash, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from the housing boom to how to talk about it, and every quiz is in the text.
- The 2008 crash
Inflation, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from what a rate is to how to talk about it, and every quiz is in the text.
- Inflation
Money, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from what money is to how to talk about it, and every quiz is in the text.
- Money
The Beatles, rewritten: ten chapters, from the Quarrymen to Now and Then in order, and every quiz is in the text.
- The Beatles
Hip-hop, rewritten: eleven chapters, from the Bronx to the Super Bowl in order, and every quiz is in the text.
- Hip-hop
Evolution, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from the Beagle to the Lenski flasks, and every quiz is in the text.
- Evolution
Space exploration, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from the rocket equation to the new Moon race, and every quiz is in the text.
- Space exploration
’90s movies, rewritten: ten chapters, now in order from the video store to the argument, and every quiz is in the text.
- ’90s movies
Baseball, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from a 1744 children’s book to the 2026 labor fight, with the rules second, plain sentences, and every quiz is in the text.
- Baseball
Basketball, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from Naismith’s peach baskets to the 65-game rule, and every quiz is in the text.
- Basketball
Formula 1, rewritten: eleven chapters, in order from the rulebook to the bar, and every quiz is in the text.
- Formula 1
The Olympics, rewritten: eleven chapters in order, from Olympia to the television deal, every quiz in the text, and the moments told once.
- The Olympics
Soccer, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the laws to the bar, and every quiz is in the text.
- Soccer
AI, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the Turk to the power bill, and every quiz is in the text.
- AI
Video games, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the arcade quarter to the free-to-play phone, and every quiz is in the text.
- Video games
The internet, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from the packet to the platform, and every quiz is in the text.
- The internet
Tennis, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from the scoring to the table, and every quiz is in the text.
- Tennis
The Cold War, rewritten: twelve chapters in order, from Yalta and Orwell’s essay to the last arms treaty running out. The disputes stay disputes, and every quiz is in the text.
- The Cold War
The iPhone, rewritten: twelve chapters, now in order from Project Purple to the fold, and every quiz is in the text.
- The iPhone
The stock market, rewritten: eleven chapters, now in order from what a share is to how to talk about it, and every quiz is in the text.
- The stock market
Everyday names on the shelf (Soccer, AI, ’90s movies, Philosophy, Superhero movies, Money, Prestige TV), a true tagline for Baseball, and an honest Coming soon: eighteen placeholders folded into live subjects, four staples added.
- Soccer
- AI
- ’90s movies
- Philosophy
- Superhero movies
- Money
- Baseball
Ancient Egypt lands — 8 chapters. Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the Great Pyramid; the rest is detail.
- Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece lands — 8 chapters. The 300 were not alone, the statues were not white, and the marathon is a number from 1908.
- Ancient Greece
Classic rock lands — 8 chapters, 1955 to 1980, not one lyric. The Eagles outsell Thriller and Stairway was never a single.
- Classic rock
Horror lands — 8 chapters. It starts with a copyright case and ends with the most profitable film ever made costing fifteen thousand dollars.
- Horror
Tennis lands — 8 chapters, from a pony-roller to 70–68. In the works no more.
- Tennis
The Cold War lands — 9 chapters, from a 5,000-word telegram to a press conference that opened a wall. The red telephone was a teletype.
- The Cold War
The iPhone lands — 7 chapters. The 2007 demo ran in one fixed order because that was the only order it survived.
- The iPhone
The stock market lands — 8 chapters, from a buttonwood tree to a trader in Hounslow. A share is a claim on what is left.
- The stock market
The Black Sox, sabermetrics and the Negro Leagues dives rewritten fuller — quizzes, reveals and doors out.
- Baseball
The Ruth dive gets its depth — three chapters rewritten fuller, deliberately replacing the originals.
- Baseball
Crypto lands — 7 chapters, from the genesis block to the ETF turn. Tennis, Horror and The Cold War move to in the works.
- Crypto
- Tennis
- Horror
- The Cold War
Visual density pass — memes gains five photos and four source blocks across origin, people, events, words and fights; internet’s facts chapter and games’ facts/talk chapters each gain new photos and sources. Games’ canvas-frozen origin and numbers chapters get their images and sources through content/media-overlay.json instead.
- Memes & internet culture
- The internet
- Video games
Memes & internet culture lands — 8 chapters, from Dawkins to the dead internet. The internet and Video games each gain facts and talk chapters, plus three side-door topics: Rickrolling, Eternal September, Polybius.
- Memes & internet culture
- The internet
- Video games
Pop volume lands: Taylor Swift (6 chapters — the masters saga, Swiftonomics, the discourse) and K-pop goes live from placeholder (6 chapters — the trainee system, YouTube’s border-crossing, the seven-year clock).
- Taylor Swift
- K-pop
Superhero films and anime are in: 14 chapters and linked topic cards.
- Superhero movies
- Anime
Star Wars lands — 7 chapters, from Fox’s merchandising blunder to the Machete Order, plus the Holiday Special, the Marcia Lucas edit and Kenner’s empty box.
- Star Wars