Meet Timeline, A Mobile News App With A Long, Long Memory

By connecting the dots between past and present, this iPhone app turns every story into an epic.

As someone who majored in history but never took a journalism course in my life, I've always maintained that it's impossible to understand the present without knowing the past. If Apple announces a smartwatch, my mind will turn to past Apple product launches, all the way back to the 1970s. When someone declares that the web is dead, I have flashbacks to previous technologies whose obituaries were written prematurely. And so on.