Timeline

Say interesting things about time.

Timeline chart


      
    


    

      

        

          

            
            
          

          

          

            
            
          

          

            Add new sentences in the data text area and click “Redraw.” Put a
            period at the end of every sentence.
          

        


        

          
          
          
Choose a file to load its original text.

        

      

    


    

      
About this little program

      

        David Link began Timeline in 2005 to explore an Entity/Event model and
        simple natural-language statements. The original Perl CGI application
        drew rudimentary ASCII charts. This browser port keeps that idea—and
        the old datasets—without requiring Perl or a server-side process.
      

      

        Try a sentence such as Socrates was born 470 BC. Dates may be
        years, BC/AD
        years, or month/day/year. The text is intentionally interpreted by a
        small set of rules, not an AI model. That is part of its charm.