HIS — Human Interlinked Story shows the cultural development of humanity as one fabric. Ten horizontal strands — from belief and writing to technology and trade — run side by side through time. The curved threads between milestones show what made what possible.
How to read it
- Click a milestone to see what it grew from and what it opened the way to.
- Trace full lineage lights up every ancestor and every descendant — for instance, everything that had to exist before the World Wide Web could.
- Journeys walk you through one theme across disciplines.
- The time axis is not uniform: each era gets room according to how much happens in it, and the oldest eras are logarithmic.
What is it based on?
- Dates and facts follow the current scientific and scholarly consensus. Where the evidence is thin or contested — the origin of language, why farming began — the text says so.
- Links are enabling relations ("this could hardly have happened without that") drawn from mainstream history of science, art and technology. They are interpretations, not laws: history is never single-cause.
- Possible futures are scenarios based on present trends and published projections. They are questions, not predictions.
- Each milestone opens a live summary and image from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), where the full sources can be followed.
A growing knowledge base
All content lives in one open, readable file — data.js — so new milestones, links, strands and journeys can be added without touching the code.