1 pointby pimgeek5 hours ago1 comment
  • pimgeek5 hours ago
    I highly recommend this interactive timeline of Invention and Innovation cards, which visualizes the network of interdependency relationships. It features a clean interface, consistent visual style, fast loading times, and intuitive interaction design, while being informative and engaging.

    * Time Span: 4,000,000 BCE to 1993 CE

    * Mobile-Friendly: presented as a stack of cards on mobile devices for easy finger-browsing

    * Card View: whether viewed on desktop or mobile, each information card is uniform sized, with consistent illustrations and a concise summary of a historical event.

    * Timeline View: on desktop devices, you can temporarily hide the cards to view a networked timeline of historical invention milestones directly (you can zoom in/out to have better view)

    * Hightly Open Source: all data --- including card information and networked timeline data --- is stored in a publicly accessible Google Spreadheet, accompanied by a GitHub repository containing the executable code used to generate this website (though I have not tested it myself)

    [1] Info About the Project (by Boris Smus, the Author) https://smus.com/visual-chronology-science-discovery-v2/

    [2] Invention & Discovery Cards Progress (2025) https://smus.com/notes/2025/invention-discovery-cards-work-c...

    [3] Horsing around with invention.cards (2025) https://smus.com/horse-invention-cards/

    [4] GitHub Source of "Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery" https://github.com/borismus/asimov