The start of a collection:
- Pentagram’s Millennium project
- Timeline of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds editions
Some great cover designs, my favourite being this one from 1963 by Virgil Burnett. Also interesting to see how the editions seem to burgeon (apart from when Jeff Wayne’s opus arrived on the scene in the late 70’s) in times of crisis: the late 50’s / early sixties hottest parts of the Cold War, and pre-Y2K - Wattenburg:
- Net Art Idea Line
- History Flow by IBM Research [Earlier post on Histroy Flow]
- WGBH’s Commanding Heights TimeMap [requires Quicktime]
More contributions gratefully received.
Petafloptimism 
Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were: http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html
Quite possibly the best [fictional] timelines site ever.
Also, WhoWhatWhen: http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php3
Here’s a few from projects I have led:
Muslim Heritage:
http://www.muslimheritage.com/timeline/default.cfm – driven by CMS where articles are associated with dates
Reed Smith:
http://www.reedsmith.com/aboutus/history.cfm?sub=1&itemid=2077 – has a wonky scrollbar
Dernier and Hamlyn:
http://www.dernier-hamlyn.com/heritage/default.html
Some of these are very low tech, but still (all found on http://www.haddock.org/directory/ )
GUI timeline:
http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html
Keith Lynch’s timeline of net related terms and concepts:
http://keithlynch.net/timeline.html
Keith Lynch’s timeline of spam related terms and concepts:
http://keithlynch.net/spamline.html
Hip hop timeline:
http://www.emplive.com/explore/hiphop/index.asp
Google timeline:
http://www.google.com/press/timeline.html
Tobacco timeline:
http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
IVF timeline:
http://www.timelinescience.org/resource/students/inferty/inftimel.htm
How about a collection of timelines?
http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
Neale’s World Trade Center timeline: http://www.wrongwaygoback.com/articleone/wtc/
One I did eons ago – A timeline of the Klondike Gold Rush: http://www.kokogiak.com/klon/timeline.html
a troubling and intensely annotated timeline of 9/11, including all the contradictions in the various official accounts of GWB et al’s actions that morning.
http://unansweredquestions.org/timeline/
history of apple machine releases, sortable in different manners, time, processor, family
http://www.apple-history.com/frames/ trying that again
history of hypertext – http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.html
many of these google results point to timelines http://www.google.com/search?q=hypertext+history&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
motow – http://www.motown.com/classicmotown/frameset_2.html
This is nice collection of timelines
http://www.emdezine.com/designwritings/archives/cat_timelines.shtml
Honda’s History of Humanoids
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/history/
Andreas Nothinger’s World History Chart (a big paper labor of love):
http://www.hyperhistory.com/
Ford Motor Company’s 100th Anniversary Celebration has an “interactive” timeline history.
Here’s one we did for a PBS documentary: http://www.pbs.org/bloodlines/timeline/timeline.html
I’ve also always loved the Classic Motown timeline:
http://www.motown.com/classicmotown/frameset_2.html
i hope this isnt a dupe. the history of unix according to sco. the xenix/linux split seems to trip people up.
http://www.caldera.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html
2000 Nettimeline http://www2.snm-hgkz.ch/~annina/grundstudium/framebalktime.htm
More timelines http://www.google.it/search?q=nettime+timeline
This is a fairly interesting timeline – as you move your mouse cursor over the years, the columns move to reveal the information for that year:
http://www.drleslie.com/Timeline/Timelines.html
Timeline of people who have lived in my house:
http://muldermedia.com/house/
um…you should really show an example of one…like drawn out.
Digital History timeline
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm
Frys shop activity timeline.
Frys shop activity timeline WITH LINK
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/shopactivity/
That’s my computer
I usually hate it when people do this, but here’s a “content loading” message that is pretty awful: “You’ll be
For the man who has everything?
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Matt Jones timelines collection
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