Museum of Deep Time — era dial interactive website demo
Culture · Natural History Museum — a demo build by Codelith Lab, live and open to click through.
Natural history museum you operate by hand — grab a big brass ERA DIAL and spin it (or tap) from the Cambrian to the Ice Age: the years counter animates 540M→12,000, the hall re-tints, and a hand-drawn creature, O₂/CO₂/temp swap per period. Pull open felt-lined SPECIMEN DRAWERS (ammonite, amber, sabre-tooth — all illustrated), and read a taped-sketch EXPEDITION JOURNAL. Bitter + typewriter, parchment & forest & brass. The build runs as a 6-section page with 473 words of real copy and 19 images, and it holds up from desktop down to a 390px phone screen.
What this build includes
- Jurassic
- Walk the galleries.
- The specimen drawers.
- Everything here was dug up first.
- The expedition journal.
- Four places, 2027 Gobi season
Inside the build
Most museums walk you through time. Ours lets you turn it — spin the dial, walk the galleries, pull the drawers. Mind the trilobites; they were here first.
Walk the galleries.Hover any specimen. Everything you see was alive, or ate something that was.
The specimen drawers.Every museum hides its best things in drawers. We labelled ours and left them unlocked — pull a handle.
The expedition journal.Anya found a claw before breakfast — just sitting in the scree like it had been waiting 70 million years for someone punctual. Everyone pretended to stay calm. Nobody stayed calm.
Functionality built in
Build facts
| Type of build | Era-Dial Interactive Site |
|---|---|
| Industry | Culture · Natural History Museum |
| Sections on the page | 6 |
| Words of real copy | 473 |
| Images used | 19 |
| Page weight | 39 KB of HTML |
Measured from the live build. Demos are built in-house, not client projects.
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