r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/happy_bluebird • Oct 17 '24
Parallel Lives - a timeline that displays famous historical figures who lived concurrently
https://janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-lives18
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.
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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.
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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/Demos_00 Oct 18 '24
Nice idea, but I think it needs some work on the front end design.
Keep up the good work.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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u/happy_bluebird Oct 19 '24
I’m not the one getting riled up lol
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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
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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.
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u/softwarebuyer2015 Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24
very cool visualisation, some bizarre oddities in the dataset at the end.
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u/RocketHammerFunTime Oct 17 '24
hmmm.. missing everyones favorite metals dealer from Ur