Timeslip

The two of us

Made by two people in Melbourne

Timeslip is made in Melbourne, Australia, by two people — an historian and a software developer.

The two of us sitting on the stone steps of a garden in Melbourne, both in black and laughing in the winter sun, with our grey-and-white dog standing between us and nosing into one of our ears.

One of us reads the sources and decides what each day is about. The other builds the thing you play it on.

An 1868 photograph of Melbourne's General Post Office: a two-storey stone building on a street corner, a long arcade of round arches at pavement level, a square tower rising over the corner, and a few figures standing on the empty roadway.
General Post Office, 1868
A sepia photograph of Collins Street in the 1880s: the arcaded facade of Grosvenor Chambers on the left, a horse-drawn cab waiting at the kerb, a man sweeping the roadway, and a cable tram and its trailer standing on the rails to the right.
Collins Street, 1880s
An oil painting of Bourke Street in 1886, looking up a wide pale roadway crowded with hansom cabs, drays and figures in dark coats and hats, shopfronts and telegraph poles down both sides, and a hazy blue-green sky above.
Bourke Street, 1886

Charles Nettleton (Public domain) · Possibly Charles Cheney Simpson (Public domain) · Tom Roberts (Public domain) — all Wikimedia Commons

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One scene a day, and no idea where — or when — you are.

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