Last drop, an AI built me a planet. This drop, it became mine — 1,782 LinkedIn contacts streaming onto the globe as a living layer, real packet routes racing to Cupertino, Nairobi and São Paulo, and one toggle that flips it all back off.
The globe from drop 01 was done. So I asked the laziest, greediest product question there is — and pointed at tracert, the 30-year-old network tool that lists every router your data hops through. It came back with real internet geography: actual carriers, exchange points and AS numbers, animated hop by hop.
Then I made it personal: I exported my LinkedIn connections and dropped the file straight into the chat — contacts as visual layers on the globe, making it my world. The export carries no photos and no locations, so it improvised: clean monogram avatars as the "tiny pic", the network mapped across global hubs — and a master toggle, because I asked for a way back to the plain planet.
The first version drew avatar bubbles and a reaching arc to a featured contact. Pretty — but not it. One steer later: no lines, super-thin pins standing off the surface, the globe back at its calm Earth speed, and the contact card swapped for a techy terminal streaming names a second, looping through all 1,782 — forever (later calmed to ~22/sec, with each row carrying playful non-personal telemetry instead of an employer).
The design chat saw my real LinkedIn export. The version running on this page ships a trimmed data file:
first name + last initial only — every company name stripped out before publish. It's my world on the globe,
not my contacts' data. If you steal this (please do), feed it your own export the same way.
No paraphrasing here — these are the actual messages I sent, and the images the tool worked from. Tap any image to enlarge it and read the exact prompt.




The overlay, embedded live. Watch the terminal stream all 1,782 names while thin pins ride the turning Earth, switch routes with the pills to race a packet to Cupertino, Nairobi or São Paulo — then hit Globe overlay top-right and it all fades back to the plain planet from drop 01. Drag it; it still spins.
The faceless Channel B Short — ElevenLabs voice over a screen-record of the overlay, hook to payoff.
Four files, zero build step. Open the HTML and it renders the planet, streams the terminal and races the packets — then swap connections.js for your own LinkedIn export and it's your world.
start "" index.html # opens straight from disk — it fetches the map itself
No GitHub? Comment WORLD on the post and the bot DMs you the four files.
First it was a planet. Now it's my world. Next drop, it turns into the channel's opening title card — and I let Claude Code animate the whole intro sequence around it.