MetaFilter posts tagged with timelines

Yesterday, and Before

netbros — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:36:13 -0800

HistoryWorld is a general-knowledge website, designed for anyone above the age of about twelve with an interest in history. I found the site searching for dance history, but it includes 400 broad topics with more added all the time. It approaches history as a narrative, making full use of chronology. This is for the student as well as the researcher. 'What happened next?' is for all of us a fascinating question, and one of direct relevance. At the heart of history there is inevitably a sequence of events. We all know separate bits of history, of different places and times, but it is often extremely hard to relate them to what was happening in other subjects or in other parts of the world. This is one area where the internet has a distinct advantage over the printed word. Links are much more easily made online than in books. Through the medium of Timelines, linked to extensive background content, and interconnecting 'Tours through Time', HistoryWorld provides the user with the fabric of world history. If you know the broad subject you want to read about, you should probably go straight to the list of 400 Histories with 6000 selected events (amounting in all to more than a million words). The titles are arranged alphabetically. You can choose to read any History either in its Plain Text version (quicker to read, and you can print them out) or in Interactive form. In the Interactive version of the Histories you can link at a click to Tours (letting you travel fast through time on interconnecting trails) or to WhatWhenWhere (telling you what was going on elsewhere at the time you are reading about). The concept from the start was that HistoryWorld must be extremely interactive in its presentation and retrieval systems. It was also a central theme that the content must have a precisely focused index of the traditional kind, available to the user on every page, rather than relying on the erratic results of word searches.

World history, the big story

nickyskye — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:01:40 -0800

Macrohistory. Prehistory to yesterday. This site describes humanity from prehistory to the 21st century - stories about ideas and events. Maps. Timelines index. Country profiles.

Life through time

Wolfdog — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:13:07 -0800

A slideshow & timeline of life on earth - A timeline of human migration.

Map of maps, timeline of timelines

blahblahblah — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:20:29 -0800

Milestones in graphics, maps, and visualizations. An incredible site for anyone interested in the history of visualization of data. See the first town map from 6200 BCE. Take a look at some of the most important graphics through history, including the London cholera map and the diagrams that made Florence Nightingale's case, as well as recent examples of some of the worst. Also check out the fascinating history of timelines, or Cabinet magazine's beautifully illustrated Timeline of Timelines.

A Timeline Of Timelines

jack_mo — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:13:34 -0800

A Timeline of Timelines

extrapolation and beyond

moonbird — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:55:30 -0800

The Wiki History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less [via]

Timelines

delmoi — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:55:17 -0800

Katrina timeline And another , as the first only goes up till Friday the 2nd. Both these only reference verified events. That said, these both seem to have been done by left-leaning people, and I'd like to see some right-wing or even (*ghasp*) non-partisan ones.

Freeze this moment a little bit longer

Wolfdog — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:38:11 -0800

Timelines and a family tree or two. Got a wide screen? Bring it.

Timeline of Art History

plep — Fri, 02 May 2003 12:13:56 -0800

The Met's Timeline of Art History. From Tibet to ancient Greece by way of Mesoamerica and musical instruments. An index by theme.

the fiction timeline collection

iconomy — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 05:28:12 -0800

The Historian of Things That Never Were: Edgar Governo collects timelines, chronologies, and histories of events that never happened, to people and things that never existed. Like who? Like Dr. Who, and Final Fantasy VII, Gargoyles, Buckaroo Bonzai, Gulliver's Travels, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and many more.

art and archaeology

hama7 — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 06:05:01 -0800

"Welcome to Old Stones, a website about selected topics in ancient art and archaeology."

bitdamaged — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:26:54 -0800

When will?? Asia-pacific surpass the US in Internet users? 2005 according to the good folks at BT Internet and their BTExact technology timeline

signal — Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:23:53 -0800

A Brief History of the Apocalypse