As far as experiments to lure readers away from the endlessly distracting present and toward literal old news go, a new project from The Atlantic is premised on an interesting conceit. The Atlantic’s Life Timeline appeals to the inherent vanity in us all by creating a personalized timeline of the national and international history that has accompanied our own personal, lived history.
Pop in your birth month, day and year into the landing page and you will learn details like the pop-culture and political events that occurred upon your arrival into the world and as you entered adulthood, hollywood depictions of teenagers from the time you first became one, what event occurred at your life’s current halfway point and possibly a prediction about the future world you will inhabit.
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