Random Wikipedi-ness: A Re-Imagining

A long time ago, way back in the opening months of 2007, I experimented with a feature called "Random Wikipedi-ness", in which I would use the "random" function on Wikipedia to find an unusual topic for discussion.

The project was canned after three entries, mostly because I began to realize that it was pointless for me to rehash the information I got from a Wikipedia page when anyone who cared to learn about the person, place or thing in question could - crazy idea alert! - visit the page themselves. Put a damper on the whole deal.

Recently, however, I started clicking on Wikipedia links and realized something semi-interesting: it's kinda fun to pick a topic and click the first link on the page, then the first link on that page (not counting stuff in parentheses, or countries - just didn't seem right, like it would end up being the same thing over and over again the more I did this), and so on and so forth, until it got to be ten or twenty pages later and I was somewhere completely different from the start. So I figured, what the hell? Eight people read this thing anyway, might as well give it a try.

Opening Page: Johnny Cash
First Link: Grammy Award
Second Link: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Third Link: Musician
Fourth Link: Music
Fifth Link: Art
Sixth Link: The arts
Seventh Link: Culture
Eighth Link: Latin
Ninth Link: Indo-European languages
Tenth Link: Language family

Come on - this was at least a little interesting, wasn't it? Where else in the world can one go from Johnny Cash to language families in ten easy steps?