The Best Brand Timelines So Far

Facebook Timeline has just gone live for brands, and Ad Age says “it’s as if dozens of little corporate museums just launched on Facebook.” Coca-Cola has posted memorabilia going back a century and a half, including a handwritten letter from a store owner praising Coke, the New York Times is posting historical front pages, and Old Spice has decided that it was created when a ship’s captain and a one-eyed leopard “accidentally mix space rocks, tank weaponry, a race-car spoiler, cool sunglasses and a vampire fang.”