Clock

you arrive two seconds before midnight.

4.5 billion years scrubbed as 24 hours — feel our lateness

Earth’s 4.5 billion years compressed into one 24-hour day puts life’s timeline in proportion: the first life appears well before breakfast, but animals, dinosaurs, and humans are all packed into the final hour. All of recorded civilization, from pyramids to the internet, fits inside the last quarter-second of the day.

Concepts: deep-time, scale.

An interactive you play with one thumb, on Wundr.