Another calendar gets consigned to the trashcan. 365 days of memories and events from here on will gather dust either in minds or in our journals. But history is enriched by what that passes. And sometimes in our present, we too are tempted to look back at what has passed and relive the moments. It is these collective experiences that offers us a chance to imbibe and learn.
The internet speeds forward with the speed of thought, but it is the same internet that also archives what has passed. Information is never dated in the true sense and isn’t the internet all about capturing those bits of data and presenting them as bytes?
This post attempts to cover seven such historical sites that are made around timelines. Timelines which take us back into history and show what happened at some point in time. These sites are not only educational but also help us to put our present tense in the perspective of the past. Even as you go through these sites, rest assured that there are many whose sole purpose is filing away facts of historical data for later use. So let’s try to turn the clock back….
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