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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Raph Koster recommends it
It begins with African talking drums and the curious poetry they contain embedded in their beats, and from there embarks on a tour of all of information theory.

on raphkoster.com · 19 Jan 2012 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.