Add time to your searches.

When doing searches for particular items, a simple scroll into the page (3D would be nice, but not necessary) will examine a dated history of what that search term brought up a month ago, two months ago, a year ago, 5 years ago... etc.

Prior to the internet, this could flip into a history of what was thought to be known about those terms. Graphically, this would be a nice visual of the growth of human knowledge.
-- leinypoo13, Jan 11 2008

I like it - not entirely related, but it makes me think of an image of an animal that morphs forwards and backwards in evolutionary time as you zoom the scroll-wheel forwards and backwards on your mouse.

An implementation might be something you could talk to the Wayback Machine people about.
-- zen_tom, Jan 11 2008


This is a T-axis scroll, not a true Z-axis scroll......
-- 8th of 7, Jan 11 2008


I would call it a W scroll, or is that reserved for the ana-kata type dimension?
-- nineteenthly, Jan 12 2008


Why do I often feel like I've missed something....?
-- BJS, Jan 12 2008


When I was a child, my great aunt had an Encyclopedia Britannica from, jeez, something like 1928. It was fascinating reading.
-- DrCurry, Jan 12 2008


Likewise [DrC] I've got an old ship's doctor's book from the turn of the century. Amazing stuff.
-- zen_tom, Jan 12 2008



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