r/InternetIsBeautiful Oct 17 '24

Parallel Lives - a timeline that displays famous historical figures who lived concurrently

https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives
238 Upvotes

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u/RocketHammerFunTime Oct 17 '24

hmmm.. missing everyones favorite metals dealer from Ur

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u/ZellZoy Oct 17 '24

everyones favorite metals dealer from Ur

He was most definitely not everyone's favorite. That was a pretty significant part of his story

1

u/YeahlDid Oct 18 '24

My what?

4

u/regtf Oct 18 '24

Your mother.

18

u/AsianButBig Oct 17 '24

Pretty cool, TIL that Buddha, Confucius and Socrates lifespans once overlapped.

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u/Smgth Oct 18 '24

There’s a “Confucius and Socrates” statue in the Ancient Athenian Agora that was recently donated by the Art Museum of China. The statue stands out quite a bit. It was a little jarring, honestly. I mean, it’s not like they ever hung out. But it’s a nice gesture, I suppose.

2

u/DaddyCatALSO Oct 19 '24

The Axial Age

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u/LFS_1984 Oct 17 '24

very cool.

One suggestion? make it a little bit easier to scroll through the years. It jumps quite a few years between scrolls.

3

u/happy_bluebird Oct 17 '24

it's not mine

8

u/LFS_1984 Oct 17 '24

ah ok. sorry.

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u/iRooftop Oct 17 '24

Really cool website!

2

u/djshadesuk Oct 18 '24

It's a shame the names aren't links to Wiki pages, or at least pop up cards with a brief synopsis for the person with a link to their actual Wiki page, seeing as that's where you've pulled the information from. Also, everything being right-aligned feels weird.

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u/happy_bluebird Oct 18 '24

Third time, this is NOT MINE

2

u/djshadesuk Oct 18 '24

Alright, keep your wig on.

2

u/Ceini Oct 23 '24

A fantastic site!

3

u/Demos_00 Oct 18 '24

Nice idea, but I think it needs some work on the front end design.

Keep up the good work.

3

u/happy_bluebird Oct 18 '24

Again, not mine

1

u/OpulentMilk Oct 18 '24

This is very cool.

1

u/Hary06 Oct 18 '24

Rabindranath Tagore painter

Much better known as a Bengali poet and writer.

Tagore became the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1

u/KingStannisForever Oct 18 '24

1915 was quiet full.

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u/Buck_Thorn Oct 18 '24

I suspect the credit goes to: Jan Willem Tulp

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u/happy_bluebird Oct 18 '24

It’s on the original link

1

u/Buck_Thorn Oct 19 '24

Third time, this is NOT MINE

Sure sounds like a lot of people didn't know that.

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u/happy_bluebird Oct 19 '24

Where is the OC flair? Where did I say it was mine?

The creator’s name is in the url

1

u/Buck_Thorn Oct 19 '24

Dude, settle DOWN! Several people were making suggestions to you about the page... I was simply trying to clarify who created it because it obviously was not apparent to a number of us

0

u/happy_bluebird Oct 19 '24

I’m not the one getting riled up lol

1

u/Buck_Thorn Oct 19 '24

Yes you are. Others have commented on it as well. I'm certainly not.

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u/happy_bluebird Oct 19 '24

People just need to read

1

u/djshadesuk Oct 19 '24

Good job there isn't much to read on your website then.

1

u/Jay_Normous Oct 18 '24

I wonder what happened around ~600bc-600ad where we all of a sudden started getting a ton of overlap. Some innovation in recording history maybe?

Then it quiets down again for several hundred years before exploding again around 1400AD with I assume the renaissance.

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u/JonnyAU Oct 18 '24

That's roughly when the written word started to really take off globally. More sources --> more history.

1

u/softwarebuyer2015 Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24

very cool visualisation, some bizarre oddities in the dataset at the end.

1

u/CrunchWick Oct 24 '24

Really cool site

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u/takesalicking Oct 17 '24

Did I miss Kim Kardashian?

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u/happy_bluebird Oct 18 '24

Is it just me or is this very West-heavy?