"HISTOGRAPHY is project by Israeli designer Matan Stauber. It uses an algorithm for identifying and extrapolating historical events from Wikipedia’s immense database. Historical events are mapped in an interactive timeline encompassing 14 billion years, from the Big Bang to 2015. Updates are automatic: Each new historical article appearing on the online encyclopedia is added to the website. The timeline is composed of thousands of tiny black dots on a pink background. Each dot represents a historical event, and all together they span horizontally throughout time, showing an increasing quantity and density as they approach the present. ...”
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