The first thing I thought of was the old simile widgets[0]. There is still a timeline demo online[1]. I think they're fascinating, but they are a bit of a chall

The first thing I thought of was the old simile widgets[0]. There is still a timeline demo online[1]. I think they're fascinating, but they are a bit of a challenge (for me at least) to understand how they work - I don't know JavaScript very well and that's what makes them work. Still, they're cool. Note that the timeline demo doesn't work over https, only over an http link. Good luck. [0]: https://github.com/simile-widgets https://github.com/simile-widgets [1]: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/