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About

History deserves a better home

We're building the shared, source-traced, community-curated timeline of everything that has ever happened — and inviting the whole world to add to it.

Why hiBar exists

History today is scattered. It lives in isolated encyclopedia pages, locked textbooks, forum arguments and personal notebooks. There's no single place where every event sits in its true position in time, where you can trace a claim to its sources, and where the community — not a lone editor — decides how much to trust it.

hiBar is our answer: a living timeline that anyone can read, contribute to, and improve. A place where the fall of an empire, a scientific breakthrough and your own family's story can share the same canvas.

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What we believe

Our principles

Open by default

Knowledge grows fastest when everyone can contribute. The shared record belongs to the people who build it.

Sources over opinions

Every claim should be traceable. We reward evidence, not volume, and make the chain of citation visible.

Truth is a process

History isn't fixed. New discoveries and new technology rewrite it all the time — printed books can't follow, hiBar does, in the open.

The mission

Map the whole human story — together

From the first cities to today's headlines, we want every event to have a place, a date, a source and a community around it. Every fact you add makes that map a little more complete.