Archive for March, 2011
The Wait Is Over: Dipity Finally Adds BC Dating
If it seems like millennia that we’ve been waiting to incorporate BC dating into our interactive digital timelines on Dipity. Well, the wait is finally over as our fabulous engineering team has solved the mysteries of testy servers and other complicated internet stuff to incorporate an extra seventeen millennia into our timeline platform. Dipity’s timescale has grown from 100AD-2250AD to 9999BC to 9999AD. That is 10 times more time!!!
We’re excited and we hope you Dipsters are too, particularly those who we have kept waiting for so long. We appreciate your patience and hope that the wait won’t keep you from testing it out, giving us feedback and spreading the word. Historians, students, teachers, scientists and anyone interested in awesome, easy, data visualization online stands to benefit from this new element to our timeline tool.
To complement our tasty new BC dating capabilities, we’ve added a bunch of new zoom levels to help you make the most out of your timeline. The new levels include: half hour, 3 days, 3 months, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 250 years, 1000 years and 5000 years. To give you an example of the possibilities for BC dating, we created a timeline called “History of the Wheel.”
We chose the wheel as our topic because the development and use of this vital tool spans nearly seven millennia and multiple continents. BC dating, together with the new zoom levels, allows us to display, for the first time on Dipity, a long, drawn out history like this one.
We also feel that, in a certain way, we’ve reinvented the wheel. We built this really useful tool, but we have always known that BC dating would be a crucial element for many users of our digital timeline platform. Think of it as a free upgrade from alloy wheels to an active wheel system. It just makes everything better.
Thank you for reading and enjoy building those awesome BC timelines. Don’t forget to share!
-Steve
Dipity Community Manager
