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[FutureOfToday]

I'm glad to hear the project is still on track, and I look forward to hearing of more developments.

[Thaizasaskand]

I like the sound of this project.

 

One stupid question: will the years 2000-2012 come under the Past Timeline?

[FutureOfToday]

I'm pretty sure they would move those years from the Future Timeline to the Past Timeline website. And as each year goes by, the same would happen.

[StanleyAlexander]

^ As long as predictions don't change.  Maybe for each prediction that transitions from future to past, there can be a corresponding entry about how close that prediction was to what actually happened.

 

I just don't want to see any predictions deleted or modified because they were off the mark... analyzing & understanding our mistakes is the best way to learn & refine our predictions

[CLB]

What if just the framework of the past timeline was posted up, and people were free to add things up whenever they wanted? Just until the timeline was fleshed out a bit, then you could stop people editing it and make any tweaks to it.

[FutureOfToday]

That sounds a little too wiki-like for me. I think while it's in development it should have somewhere to submit suggestions, but I think ultimately, it should be built in exactly the same way as Future Timeline, which works perfectly.

[raxo2222]

Umm... Can I ask what happened to it?

[Pwaa]

^ As long as predictions don't change.  Maybe for each prediction that transitions from future to past, there can be a corresponding entry about how close that prediction was to what actually happened.

 

I just don't want to see any predictions deleted or modified because they were off the mark... analyzing & understanding our mistakes is the best way to learn & refine our predictions

This.

Wouldn't be hard to collate the right and wrong predictions into a graph, then we can start to see how accurate we have been.  Would be cool to see the correlation between how far in the future a prediction was and which of them were right.  For example, out of 5 predicions made about 2 years in the future, 4 of them were right, but out of predictions made for 10 years in the future only 1 out of 6 was right.  It would take a long time to get any meaningful data, but it could be interesting to see how accurate we are.

[wjfox]

Oh God, I'm really DYING to get started on this! It will be very exciting to work on. However, the DNS still hasn't been set up yet, and I don't know how to configure it properly. To cut a long story short - the domain was registered with a separate company to my webhost for FT. I tried to input the settings in DirectAdmin, but it didn't work. I'm gonna contact my host this evening and ask for advice. This has been dragging on for ages and I really want to get started on it.

[wjfox]

Right, I've contacted my host. Let's make this happen!!

[Sciencerocks]

YAY,

 

Keep up the good work Wjfox

[Colonel O'Neil]

One thing that we need to make sure we don't do, is make the timeline europe-centric. That wouldn't be much of a timeline at all. Just like the futuretimeline is a global endeavor, so too must the past timeline.

 

I am more than willing to help, once my damn exams are over (wednesday)

[raxo2222]

Good news

 

Let me repost myself:

I have small suggestion on starting picture on past timeline.

You know that black picture?
http://www.futuretim...se_dark_era.jpg
It was on last entry of future timeline. (Universe is especially dead...)

So picture of first entry on past timeline could be completely white:
http://imageshack.us...beginningu.jpg/
There was so much energy in so small space at 10⁻⁴³ seconds, so that picture is good to show universe at Plancks stage .

It could start with big BOOM.

[wjfox]

Yep, the first picture will be pure whiteness.

[wjfox]

The DNS has been sorted. At last!

 

http://www.pasttimeline.net

 

I'll try to upload a homepage in the next few days.

[FutureOfToday]

Yay! Can't wait to see this website in all it's FT-level glory!

[wjfox]

FTP is now totally sorted, which means I can start working in Dreamweaver.

 

http://www.pasttimeline.net/

 

The final homepage will look nothing like this, btw - it's just a simple test page.

 

Might be a few weeks before it starts looking like FT, but I'll post more updates as it progresses.

[Italian Ufo]

FTP is now totally sorted, which means I can start working in Dreamweaver.

 

http://www.pasttimeline.net/

 

The final homepage will look nothing like this, btw - it's just a simple test page.

 

Might be a few weeks before it starts looking like FT, but I'll post more updates as it progresses.

 

Thank you WILL CONGRATULATIONS !!!

[wjfox]

^ Thanks.

 

There will be 7 main sections. Each of these will be further sub-divided:

 

Timeline of natural history (13.7 billion years BC – 200,000 BC) Timeline of human prehistory (200,000 BC – 3500 BC) Timeline of ancient history (3500 BC – 499 AD) Timeline of the Middle Ages (500 – 1499) Timeline of early modern history (1500 – 1899) Timeline of modern history (1900 – 2013) Timeline of the future (a few selected extracts from FutureTimeline.net, with a link to the main website)  

[FutureOfToday]

We have a coming soon page!