Time machine

Change your perspective on the world

Through this panel, you will be able to choose between different styles, each of which is inspired by a particular historical period and will allow you to travel back and forth in time.

The selection we propose starts from the year 1500 and goes straight into the future, including also styles inspired from the 1940s and the 1950s. What are you waiting for? Start your journey!

Incunabula and beyond

1500

Have you ever wondered on how website from 1500 looked like?

The secret metadata society had already developed a rudimental version of the internet yet in 1500. The clergy - that is the name used by this secret society to call their servers - was yet something, and a vast amount of textual and visual data had already been stored in in. From the 16th century on, they started to share data with the most educated people, but maybe today you will be able to capture the secrets passed down from year to year by these unknown organization...

The time of the Time time-travel

1940

As time passed by, books left some space for magazines and information started to flow in a different manner. More easilly than before, the secret metadata society started to spread secret information encoded between the lines of such magazines. But who is able to decode it?

Row after row, column after column, how would it be to read one of the most famous news magazines in the 1940s? It's Time to discover it!

Give me a grid and I will rule the world

1950

It's enough to look at a poster for a few seconds to grasp all the necessary for understanding the point. Did you get it?

The secret metadata society got smarter and ws able to send subliminal messsages that need the blink of an eye to be effective.

Straight to the point! Clear and essential. Can you resist it?

Are you ready font the future?

2030

In this era communication on Earth does not exist anymore. The secret meatada society rules the planet and use the population for their dark purposes.

A few survivors are travelling though space to found the words they lost, it's all dark out there. They miss home some much and they do not know ho to describe that sensation. But suddently, a violet planet brings their memories back to a pleasent afternoon made of good readings, milkshakes and blueberries...

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Purposes

The purpose of this web site is to explore various types of typographic and layout style for text documents, as an end-of-course project for the "Information Modeling and Web technologies" course of the Master Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge of the University of Bologna, under prof. Fabio Vitali.

Sources

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