Guess the Map 12: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Mercator

[H4run]

Mmm so is this something that is related to technology?

And the red one is suppose to be Ivory Coast (the first to have the installment?) while the Blue one is Malawi (the last one), am I right?

 

[W|M]

4G connection?

 

[H4run]

This map is entirely in the latter half of the 20th century.

4G connection?

Nope

 

[Takhisis]

This is about communications then?

I reject prescriptivism in language!

In Soviet Russia prescriptivism rejects YOU.

 

[amadeus]

This is about communications then?

It is.

South Africa very well could have been the red country, but rejected it for political reasons.

 

[Kyriakos]

Non-state owned tv channels?

 

[H4run]

half 20th century, related to technology and communication, and delayed because of political reason. Where Ivory Coast is the first to comply and Malawi is the last.

What can it be.

It cannot be telephone because it was already entered since late 19th century. Mmm... It's not internet also. Perhaps it's as Kyr assumed but I'm not sure.

 

[amadeus]

Non-state owned tv channels?

You are almost there! I will be your PAL and give you a big hint.

 

[H4run]

You are almost there! I will be your PAL and give you a big hint.

Is this related with the entrance of video in Africa?

 

[Kyriakos]

You are almost there! I will be your PAL and give you a big hint.

Some type of (color) tv, then
"Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analogue television"

 

[H4run]

Oh yes I mixed it up with VHS and Betamax lol

 

[Kyriakos]

(Open floor )

 

[amadeus]

Some type of (color) tv, then

That is exactly what it is! The introduction of color television by country. The Ivory Coast was the first to start color broadcasts in 1970.

Orange - 1970’s
Yellow - 1980’s
Green - 1990’s

Malawi started in 1996, previously having no service at all.

South Africa’s service started in 1976, also after previously having no television service. The apartheid government feared that it would undermine “Christian“ values and promote “race-mixing.” They would ultimately prove to be correct in a sense; the most popular program on South African television in white households? The Cosby Show.

 

[H4run]

The darker the color, the better the quantity.

 

[amadeus]

Some kind of blue water naval vessel?

 

[H4run]

Nooooo icy cold!

 

[amadeus]

So some kind of arctic naval vessel then.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Aircraft carriers

 

[H4run]

Nope nope faraway!

I will give all of you a huge clue. This is a top ten list of countries! And un-usually Canada and Australia are not included in the top 10 list While Italy and Brazil are included.

How strange is that?

 

[Kyriakos]

It's not GDP, iirc Canada is #10 there.

Maybe absolute number of paedophiles?