These timelines fill me with certain amount of sadness. How empires and peoples last few centuries and fall! After few hundred years people don’t even know or care these people existed. It must be true that the countries we love may and owe our allegiance to may not exist in a few centuries. The people in that future wouldn’t care we existed. Over time everything gets eroded.
Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
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#192Something very related I've been trying to find is a tool to create my own timelines. When I read about history, I always struggle to remember the order of events, or put them in historical context (eg who was the english monarch who sent troops to Ireland?). I'm often off by hundreds of years on when an event happened because I don't have a good mental model. I'd love a tool that lets me create my own timeline. Idea…
A good option is to use an LLM to produce Mermaid diagrams. For example Excalidraw has a pretty great integration for that.
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#193Reminded me of https://www.runningreality.org/#01/01/1855&47.60530,-122.334...
Great alternative to timemap.org! Thanks for the discovery
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#194This is amazing to see! I've wanted a good, digital, historical atlas for more than 10 years. The ones I've seen have all had some kind of limitation that's made them less-than-ideal imo. This one seems to check most of my boxes in terms of features & UX, plus it looks really nice! Big kudos to everyone involved. I will definitely be using this a lot! That said, seeing it IS a definitely bittersweet since I started m…
Regarding the "year 0" issue: it doesn't exist in that calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
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#195I've wanted this to exist my entire life.