Timeline:: Car Culture, Car Ads & Environmentalism

The Chronicler who narrates events without distinguishing between major and minor ones acts in accord with the following truth: nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost to history. Of course only a redeemed mankind is granted the fullness of its past–which is to say, only for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l’ordre du jour. and that day is Judgment Day.  (Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History)

The dipity timeline is was a neat tool that I used to map notable moments in the American environmental movement alongside the development of car culture. Because it is a visual tool, it allowed me to visually assess any corresponding instances of notable environmental milestones and shifts in car ad iconography. However, as of December 2011, I’ve been experiencing intermittent, and now profound issues with this external free host, and I would not recommend it to other users, at all. There are alternatives, some are visually stunning, however the potential cost of losing important data that is saved to an external server, or using proprietary software that you have no control over or direct access to, is a major risk.

My timeline and user profile disappears at times, which makes the entire situation very distressing and stressful. Let my experience be your guide, choose a timeline software that you control yourself, even if it means sacrificing some of the flashier functionality of free options like dipity.

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