Did Facebook Really Invent The Timeline?

Facebook took a year to develop the timeline profile, but it's a concept that has evolved over a much greater period of time, says guest writer Christian Lindholm, partner and director at .Fjord.


Facebook took a year to develop the advanced profile currently called timeline, but I see it as part of a much longer evolution — dating back to Vannevar Bush’s Memex vision from the 1950s.

The Memex was a hypothetical machine that would record everything; now Facebook stands to be the first realized version of the Memex, recording everything (well almost) and allowing us near-instant recall of the minutest details of our lives – or at least the ones we posted on Facebook.

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