(via & more http://ibnlive.in.com/news/app-lets-people-create-a-time-machine/183471-11.html)Bangkok: For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape - the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the US Grand Canyon - and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitise old photographs and other media of the places, along with personal recollections of the past. Combined with modern pictures and memories, the app creates a story of a place for people to enjoy - a sort of "time machine in your pocket," its backers say.
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The app is available worldwide on the App store (here) and Android Marketplace (here).
Content can also be explored through the project's website.
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