Included in the above is professor Scott Fahlman’s creation of the : – ) in 1982.

Gupta’s time line (embedded above) has become the second most popular one on Dipity, which hosts approximately 75,000 different interactive charts. Dipity lets users quickly generate time lines by entering information manually or by capturing data from RSS feeds, YouTube, Flickr or Twitter accounts. Using Dipity’s tools, users have built time lines chronicling events in TV show Lost and the inception of virtual worlds.

I’ve not received my invite to give Dipity a try. I’m waiting, guys.

(via wired, dipity)

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