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drewbcancode.bsky.social • 19 days ago

Each question is actually a link to another node on the timeline. As you go from node to node, or explore all the questions of a single node, your history timeline starts to fill out.

Eventually you end up with a graphically compelling network of nodes along a timeline that shows how things connect

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drewbcancode.bsky.social•19 days ago

But... this isn't like reading a history book. Each question and node is extremely focused and bite-sized - and the community can propose new questions to attach to nodes, and suggest nodes for those questions to connect to.

drewbcancode.bsky.social•19 days ago

Each node is also a discussion board all its own, where the community can add context and information as they see fit. (Highlight discrepencies in opinions, offer question-links to other relevant nodes, etc...)

drewbcancode.bsky.social•19 days ago

Some can add TikTok-like short videos to it as a form of response as well: clips they've taken of live tours, memes, show-and-tell shorts from people who still have a relevant artifact, etc.

drewbcancode.bsky.social•19 days ago

The overall experience is: you slowly discover the history of something (the network of connected events you end up creating) by exploring the different historic connections that exist organically, at your own speed, in your own order, in bite sized chunks, starting from somewhere familiar to you.

drewbcancode.bsky.social•19 days ago

The big problem is figuring out how to source the history factoids that will end up making up the (initially completely hidden) network of all nodes that the user can potentially explore.

Either it will have to be built up node by node from a dedicated user base or scraped from somewhere like wiki.

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