Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination - Spotlight at Stanford
There are some beautiful illustrations in this online exhibition of data visualisation in the past few hundred years.
Related links
List of Physical Visualizations
A timeline showing the history of non-digital dataviz.
Histography - Timeline of History
A nice navigable timeline of historical events from Wikipedia.
Here is today
A long-zoom data visualisation.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004
This powerful timeline illustrates how drone attacks have increased dramatically under Obama’s administration.
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Timelines of the web
The World Wide Web is a mashup.