Histography – Timeline of History(histography.io)
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Histography – Timeline of History
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"Works best with Internet Explorer"?
I thought sane web developers were well past that.
"Works best with Internet Explorer"?
I thought sane web developers were well past that.
Beautiful.
If you zoom at the last 100 years, the point form something that looks like a voice recording. I wonder what the history is telling us?
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Here's a thing I always wanted to see but am too busy to do myself: an explorable map of the world with different overlays you could toggle and a separate temporal scrollbar. Something I could use to see e.g. how the borders changed over time by dragging the scrollbar (and that would be accurate - e.g. took into account that nation-states are a recent invention and borders had a different meaning in e.g. medieval times). Or follow the battles of World War II all over the world. Basically, interactively explorable history of humanity.
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Here's another, simpler idea, of something that I really would like to get around doing eventually, but maybe someone will beat me to it. There is a power metal band, Sabaton, that is known for writing historically-accurate songs about historical military conflicts[0]. I would love to see all conflicts referred by them in their music plotted on a map, in a way that would let you select one and listen to the song[0], with lyrics displayed on-screen, along with additional historical information about a particular battle/conflict. Explorable chronologically.
[0] - They've covered World War II and later conflicts pretty well, but also did songs on WWI, earlier wars and particularly they had a whole album concerned with the Thirty Years' War and the history of Sweden. The angle varies between songs and albums - sometimes it's about the tragedy of war, other times it's about individual acts of heroism. They often cover aspects not mentioned in schools during history lessons.
[1] - Since you can find good fan-made music videos portraying the events described in the song you could embed them, but the best would be to get the band itself on board and prepare some professional-quality videos. That's not needed for the MVP though.
If you zoom at the last 100 years, the point form something that looks like a voice recording. I wonder what the history is telling us?
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Here's a thing I always wanted to see but am too busy to do myself: an explorable map of the world with different overlays you could toggle and a separate temporal scrollbar. Something I could use to see e.g. how the borders changed over time by dragging the scrollbar (and that would be accurate - e.g. took into account that nation-states are a recent invention and borders had a different meaning in e.g. medieval times). Or follow the battles of World War II all over the world. Basically, interactively explorable history of humanity.
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Here's another, simpler idea, of something that I really would like to get around doing eventually, but maybe someone will beat me to it. There is a power metal band, Sabaton, that is known for writing historically-accurate songs about historical military conflicts[0]. I would love to see all conflicts referred by them in their music plotted on a map, in a way that would let you select one and listen to the song[0], with lyrics displayed on-screen, along with additional historical information about a particular battle/conflict. Explorable chronologically.
[0] - They've covered World War II and later conflicts pretty well, but also did songs on WWI, earlier wars and particularly they had a whole album concerned with the Thirty Years' War and the history of Sweden. The angle varies between songs and albums - sometimes it's about the tragedy of war, other times it's about individual acts of heroism. They often cover aspects not mentioned in schools during history lessons.
[1] - Since you can find good fan-made music videos portraying the events described in the song you could embed them, but the best would be to get the band itself on board and prepare some professional-quality videos. That's not needed for the MVP though.
> Here's a thing I always wanted to see but am too busy to do myself: an explorable map of the world with different overlays you could toggle and a separate temporal scrollbar. Something I could use to see e.g. how the borders changed over time by dragging the scrollbar (and that would be accurate - e.g. took into account that nation-states are a recent invention and borders had a different meaning in e.g. medieval times). Or follow the battles of World War II all over the world. Basically, interactively explorable history of humanity.
I too have been wanting something like this for a very long time... I even have a couple of very early prototypes lying around.
I too have been wanting something like this for a very long time... I even have a couple of very early prototypes lying around.
I want this for wikipedia.
Awesome work. This may be a college project, but if everybody accomplished this much in life, the world would be a better place.
Wow..incredible. Thanks. Like a vastly more detailed http://www.amazon.com/The-Timetables-History-Horizontal-Link... -- more simultaneous dimensions, esp. geo dimensions, would also be useful.
Stunningly beautiful. Sure, the UI is quite complicated and arguably not all that intuitive, but it's so fun to play with it hardly matters (though "related events" disappearing once you move your mouse is a bit annoying).
Can anyone figure out the significance of the vertical axis, ie. why is one event in a given year higher than another?
Can anyone figure out the significance of the vertical axis, ie. why is one event in a given year higher than another?
Except for the big bang bullshit, very beautiful. The effects of our rampage against the planet in the disaster graph is so nicely visible. Goodby humanity, you had a chance but you blow it...
This is really cool, I could spend hours here :)
I love the UI, it looks great!
Personal favorite: "The Invention of the Silicon".
And while the UI is beautiful, and beautifully animated, I'd argue that it could use a bit of improvement, it's very difficult to get any sense of what is going on in any timeline, it likes to pull up some major events which is nice, but they have no visual relation or range, and are too few are far between, then I'm just left to search through all the dots on the page for anything interesting. The filters are great, but when one is selected I feel that nothing really comes from it.
But I do really like the effort to provide something of use to explore history. I think some very minor improvements could go a very long way. My primary suggestions would be to have a more robust filtering mechanism, perhaps even arbitrary entry based, and then to use the vertical axis in some sort of capacity, perhaps location based?