The Recession Timeline Diorama: 2007 – 2010

The Great Recession is now history — much as its recently-announced end took us by surprise. At 18 months, from December 2007 through June 2009, it is the longest since World War 2. So mint.com decided to take a look at the major events of the past three years. For the highlights, see our infographic — the Recession Timeline Diorama.

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Jimi Hendrix's timeline

Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. He expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before. His boundless drive, technical ability and creative application of such effects as wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll. Hendrix helped usher in the age of psychedelia with his 1967 debut, Are You Experienced?, and the impact of his brief but meteoric career on popular music continues to be felt.

This is a 3.65 meters long timeline infographic of Hendrix's musical production, including some other features about Hendrix chord and wah wah pedal.

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Search Engine History

Nowadays we take the existence of search engines, especially Google (and Bing) as normal and for many among us a life without Google would be hard to imagine. But how did it come this far and how did search engines evolve over the last two decades? We looked at the history of the crawlers and if you thought there was only Google, Yahoo and Bing this infographic will show you how wrong you are. For the internet nerds among us, let this infographic take you on a trip down memory lane.

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Afghan Killing Timeline

It details how a helicopter delay meant that a British Soldier died in Afghanistan and, rather than have a map and a 3d comic book treatment they did a minute by minute flow chart which highlights the lost time. Not great in itself but nice to get away from the visual cliches. Done for Channel4 News online

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