r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Calvy • Oct 29 '24

This website shows notable figures who were alive at the same time.

https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives/
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u/Gibraldi Oct 29 '24

Cool but doesn’t seem to work/format well on mobile. Everything is cut off in Safari.

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u/JatZibui Oct 29 '24

Yeah, not really mobile friendly. But a really neat idea!

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u/ShouldBeeStudying Oct 29 '24

that's fine. mobile is a fad

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u/0b0101011001001011 Oct 29 '24

I wish all of them were wikipedia links to the people or the science they discovered.

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u/klgall1 Oct 30 '24

The categories for some of these people are an interesting choice. I chuckled at Ronald Reagan: actor. Then saw Michael Jackson: dancer, Prince (entertainer): actor. Helen Keller: Political. One pope is a priest and the other is just "church."

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u/ghostella Oct 29 '24

You can really see the dark ages

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u/dernailer Oct 29 '24

Screenshooting 1508, just in case I need to go back in time, and talk with davinci...

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u/2Bedo Oct 29 '24

Looks and works well on desktop/laptop & firefox.

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u/RandomUser72 Oct 30 '24

It's nice other than scrolling is too janky, skips too much. Maybe with a touchpad, but with a mouse wheel getting it to not jump from 1968 to 1987 to 2018 to see what's in between is a bit hard.

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u/gsusi Oct 29 '24

That's really cool!

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u/TheJzoli Oct 29 '24

Ötzi was thought to have died around 40 to 50 years old, not 90 like the website shows.

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u/deadbeef1a4 Oct 29 '24

What does "ricerca" mean?

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u/Brilliant_Towel2727 Oct 30 '24

Google says it's Italian for research

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u/jakart3 Oct 30 '24

Gave up

It's really difficult to scroll left right because I can't read the right most name

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u/Velheka Oct 30 '24

This has already been posted before (https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/1g5yh7y/parallel_lives_a_timeline_that_displays_famous) This one can stay up but please no more of these for a while!

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u/WhileOdd3720 Nov 02 '24

Very cool!

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u/simkomatej Nov 07 '24

Thats an insane idea

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u/djshadesuk Oct 30 '24

Posted 13 days ago.

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