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Don't just read history. Experience it.

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    TimeMap325

    Interactive Map of History: millions of people, events, maps

    2024

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    Your Chrome Browsing history. Better.

    2014

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    histories226

    Explore history of places through audio stories & fun facts

    2024

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    The new Google Earth 🌎

    2017 · earth.google.com

  5. 5TP

    Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events. The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest…

    2025 · eggnog.ai

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    Rediscover all places you've been by exploring your timeline

    2017

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    Your filesystem for the web

    2018

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    OldSF142

    Google Street View map of San Francisco in the 1800s

    2015

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    Watch time unfold and witness 40 years of planetary change

    2021

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    Discover where to travel

    2016

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    Explore events from the BigBang to the birth of the Internet

    2018

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    Share a map marked with every place you've ever visited

    2016

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    Visualize Google location history data on a heatmap 🗺️

    2018

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    Discover significant historical events depicted in pics

    2017

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    A view into the collective memory of Aleppo before the war.

    2020

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    Maps for historical research

    2024

  17. 17IB

    I love culture + travel, and one of my favorite pastimes is dropping into random streets on Google Street View. I just LOVE getting a tiny snippet into how people live, the architecture, and discovering hidden corners of places I'll probably never visit. I'm kinda weird like that. When AI came along, I started asking it to explain what I was looking at - and I learned a ton. I couldn't stop using this combo. So I built Streetwhip. It's kinda like reverse Geoguessr - instead of guessing where you are, you get educated about places as if you had a smart local guide with you. What used to be…

    2025 · streetwhip.com

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    Step inside any building on Google Earth to see the view

    Mar 2026 · wengh.github.io

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    Explore over 200k historical markers, wherever you are!

    2025

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    Load a gorgeous satellite image in every new Chrome tab

    2014

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    Insights into your browsing history

    2014

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    Interactive global satellite images

    2017

  23. 23RG

    I just redesigned an old (1 year) project and would appreciate any feedback. The site has no real purpose other than allowing you to explore the large amount of imagery gathered by Google. You can make it less random by choosing a country, or indeed any geographical area (cities etc.) http://www.mapcrunch.com Thanks

    2011

  24. 24IB

    I built Chronoscope, a project to explore the world through time. I've been wanting to do this for a while, after being inspired by Ollie Bye's "History of the World" video several years ago. I'm not the first person to have done this - resources like OpenHistoricalMaps are amazing. But, I noticed there were a few disparate datasets / academic databases online, so I combined them together as best as I could (I've linked all sources in the app). To make it more interesting, I also included: - Notable events from the time period (geolocated where possible), sourced from wikidata - Ancient…

    Mar 2026 · shiphappens.xyz

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