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British life has not had such smooth sailing. the bbc's rory kellen-jones has this story. >> reporter: 1986 and the groundbreaking scheme is recording daily life in britain. >> the first thing we want to do is put in the amenity count. how do we do that? >> reporter: the doomsday project gathered up schoolchildren, women's institutes and other groups to describe their area in words and pictures. >> this is user-generated content. and it was a bit like google maps as you would say now but all of this is 25 years ago where all of this had to be invented. >> reporter: now some of those involved a...
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