I think it dates back to 2008-ish[0]. NYT's also been adding archives and features[1]. The latter gives an overview of their approach to the technical challen

I think it dates back to 2008-ish[0]. NYT's also been adding archives and features[1]. The latter gives an overview of their approach to the technical challenges of serving up MB's of data from scans. Tl;dr, NYT tiled the scans into "digital maps." [0] http://scobleizer.com/new-york-times-announces-times-machine/ http://scobleizer.com/new-york-times-announces-times-machine... [1] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/how-to-build-a-timesmachine/ http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/how-to-build-a-time...