ChronoMap

An IT-history series and a history of data models, two volumes on Homer, seven explorer volumes, three new Lives, two volumes on the Thousand and One Nights, and "Source" links from events and chapters to the original papers. - IT history on the map: "Signals Kill Distance: A History of Networks" (21 chapters; from the optical telegraph to submarine cables, satellites and the Internet, the lines pile up on the map chapter by chapter), "The Map of Semiconductors: Where Did the Center of Computing Move?" (18) and "Why There? IT Read through Terrain and Climate" (14). Two histories told as stories, "The History of Computing: From Gears to ChatGPT" (21) and "The History of Computers in Japan" (20, Japanese topics only), and two Lives, "Turing: What Did He Make Computable?" (23) and "Von Neumann: What Did He Entrust to Calculation?" (23). - Data models: "The Map of Data Models: Why Did the Table Win?" (18 chapters) follows seventy years of chains, trees and tables place by place, with a model diagram in every chapter and a chapter on Japan's data-oriented approach. Lives of Codd (19), Bachman (16) and Chen (12). 209 new events across IT and data models. - Source links: event cards and story chapters now link to the original paper, patent or standard where it is publicly available (Codd 1970, Turing 1936, von Neumann's First Draft, the Transformer paper and more). - Homer on the map: "The Iliad: Was There a Troy?" (24 chapters) lays the Catalogue of Ships, the layers of Hisarlık, the Hittite tablets and the 2,700-year journey of the poem on one map. "The Odyssey: Where Did People Look for the Islands?" (25) draws the route along which the islands of the homeward voyage have been located since antiquity, setting each Homeric scene beside the real history of the place. 44 new events. - Explorers: Lives of Columbus (28 chapters), Vasco da Gama (22), Magellan (23) and Vespucci (19), two who crossed the same ocean before them, Zheng He (21) and Ibn Battuta (22), and "The Travels of Marco Polo: What Did He See?" (23). Each volume opens with a question and closes by answering it, and the seven closing chapters link into one chain. 118 new events. - Lives: "Luther: What Did He Set Free?" (32 chapters), "Hobbes: What Did He Fear?" (27) and "Locke: What Did He Wipe Clean?" (29) follow each man from birthplace to deathbed, with a dateline and a period image in every chapter. 68 new events. - The Thousand and One Nights: "History through Books: The Thousand and One Nights" (27 chapters) follows the manuscripts and translations from the oldest fragment (879) to the first complete Japanese translation (1966), asking why a Baghdad book grew fat in Cairo and became world literature in Paris. "The Seven Voyages of Sindbad" (14) lays the fabulous islands over the real ninth-century dhow route. 30 new events. - While you read a story or a river, the event list below now scrolls to the chapter's year (it used to show the oldest events in view). - "The River of Cambodian and Lao History" is now "Cambodian History", with three new sections; Laos has its own river. - Fixed: the Previous/Next buttons in river cards no longer shift when a ruler chip is shown, and a shared link that points only to an event now opens at that event's year. Now 6,777 events, 117 stories and 103 rivers.