About Histolines

Histolines has just nearly doubled the number of photographs we have in our  knowledgebase by adding 20K photos released by New York Public Library(NYPL) open source project. So far we’ve only been able to process just over 20K out of 180K photos that NYPL released. Rest of the photos lack name and date tagging. The posts that have been released are marked with NYPL_name as original contributor. They seamlessly integrate into Histolines timelines to add rich detail to already established timelines and created brand new ones for people and buildings that were not represented before. Most notably timeline of New York Public Library has gained tremendous amount of detail from its construction in 1904-1905 to more recent history. Some of the data that was released by NYPL is flawed and despite our best efforts to clean it there are still few misstags and inconsistencies. But histolines update and problem finding features should help us filter misfits with time. We are...

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Histolines is a platform to compile all of historical events in one database with account of time and place. As it matures it will have infinitely detailed record of history that will be easy to navigate and analyze. This platform only intakes the basic information of who, what, where, when and with who. This prevents the usual interpretation and bias inherent in other history sources. Histolines allows anyone to add to our knowledge of history, yet it has build in mechanisms to justify the claim and to filter out fallacious remarks and events of little importance. Histolines allows you to navigate through time to look at all the known events in any stretch of time. It allows you to look at all the life events of a particular character and collection of characters that overlap in time. With time we want to develop the capability of looking into events of a particular region. (It can be a country, continent or a town). Weather to check the legitimacy, or to find out more about wha...

Sometime in March of 2013 a friend of mine sent me a link  what would facebook look like if it existed during World War II  , and reading it has set in motion all sorts of events that have led to the creation of histolines.com . First thought that flashed across my brain was that it would be amazing to create something similar for the Roman Empire, in particular about the turbulent time of  Julius Caesar ,  Mark Anthony ,  Cleopatra and people they have interacted with. But almost as soon I realized that drawing it as an image would be almost pointless since first every moment in history would need a timeline like this and second I could never capture full complexity of those people and I would need to perpetually edit it and append it. Thus a fairly obvious solution was to build a platform that would allow people to build such timelines. After quite some time and hours of trying to figure out how it would look and work and learning how to build websites I have ...