This is another thing I worked on while I was gone, and it's... odd. If you read xkcd, you might recall this comic, about making 'an extreme sport out of waiting' by calculating the relationship between the amount of time past and the history of the Earth.

Well, I do remember it... and I decided to do it.

Extreme Waiting is a JavaScript implementation of the idea. It comes with three prebuilt timelines (I prefer to go forwards, rather than backwards): the History of the Earth, the History of Writing, and (of course) the History of Middle-earth.

They're all exponential curves, so time gets more spaced-out as you approach zero; I have jigged the exponents to get roughly even information density across the timeline, though.

You can also write your own timeline and paste it in the box - just follow the example of the samples ('@10.05 Event here', with a space after the percentage). If you do, you can share them here - I might even implement them with their own pictures!

(It works on Chrome and IE; let me know if there's a problem on your browser. Oh, and tell me if any of the pictures fail - I've had to move them from PhotoBucket, and errors are possible.)

hS