# Nifty Website--your address since the dawn of time

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 26, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187 "2023-04-26T01:42:57Z")
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### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/1 "2023-04-26T01:42:57Z")

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Fun website–enter your town, & see what it was like over millions of years.

> **[Ancient Earth](https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#750)**
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> Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses across 750 million years of Earth's history.

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### Author: ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/2 "2023-04-26T01:56:42Z")

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Very cool.

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### Author: ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/3 "2023-04-26T19:53:24Z")

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Yeah, I enjoyed it, too.

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### Author: ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/4 "2023-04-26T20:49:13Z")

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I guess I’m fairly ignorant on ancient history. I didn’t realize how much the dinosaurs and Pangea overlapped.

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### Author: ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/5 "2023-04-26T21:01:07Z")

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Neat, thanks for sharing.

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### Author: ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2023, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/6 "2023-04-26T23:18:12Z")

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I like it, but it’d be cool if they had an option to automatically advance the time. I suppose they only have mappings of certain discrere eras, instead of continuously changing. Is there such an option?

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### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nifty-website-your-address-since-the-dawn-of-time/983187/7 "2023-04-27T11:34:44Z")

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I seem to recall that there is.  
Poke at it a little, you’ll find it.