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River of Time
In 1881 Sebastian Adams printed history as a 23-foot river: civilisations flowing side by side, splitting, merging, ending. These are that idea, drawn for things a chart never showed before — four billion years of life, fifty years of the internet — and made to travel along instead of just look at.
Scroll sideways on a screen. Put on a headset and walk it. Or let your kitchen wall show one moment a day. Open any moment and talk to someone who was there — a dramatised guide who knows nothing after their own day.
Every moment is a fact with a link to check it. Nothing is drawn until it is sourced, which is why some rivers below are still planned.
The River of the Internet
FreeFrom four computers in 1969 to the whole world in your pocket.
10 streams · 77 moments · checked 2026-09-20
The River of Life
FreeFour billion years, from the first cell to you.
12 streams · 35 moments · checked 2026-09-20
Planned — the rest of the series
The Machine
Three million years of human technology, from stone tools to AI.
Not yet drawn.
The Rivers of Language
How humanity learned to speak — and which river yours came down.
Not yet drawn.
The Sound
Five hundred years of music, and why genres behave like species.
Not yet drawn.
The Human River
Three hundred thousand years of us: migration, peoples, civilisations.
Not yet drawn.
Free, for now
Every river, the VR walk, and the daily moment on a Cornerstone Display are free while the series is being drawn. Homeschooling? Start here.