All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time
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·September 2, 2025kylecazar
I chose "Johnny Carson" and "Anderson Cooper", and it picked a pretty circuitous route involving Letterman and Obama.
Surely they could just be connected through Leno, for example.
Either it's a path problem or just a collection size problem I suppose. Cool nonetheless!
jackphilson
I just find it interesting how any new data added to this past the year 2023 is probably unusable
taylorius
Joe Rogan is the grand central station of the network of time.
IncreasePosts
Is the graph connected? I think it might be interesting to show two well known people who can't be connected in this method.
BrenBarn
I was wondering about some of those people of whom supposedly only a very few photos exist (like Thomas Pynchon). Presumably though they could just exclude those people from the list.
brudgers
The original Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28456413
dang
Thanks! Macroexpanded:
The Network Of Time: Choose any two people to see how they connect thorough time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105262 - Nov 2024 (8 comments)
Show HN: Network Of Time – visualize connections between notable people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28456413 - Sept 2021 (4 comments)
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to choose an actor whom they connect to another actor via a film in which both actors appeared: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon. It rests on the assumption that anyone involved in the Hollywood film industry can be linked through their film roles to Bacon within six steps. The game's name is a reference to "six degrees of separation", a concept that posits that any two people on Earth are six or fewer acquaintance links apart.
~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_law