Verno
Live the time. Understand the world.
History is not a timeline. It is a world unfolding.
Walk through what happened, look sideways at what was going on elsewhere at the same moment, and turn one moment around to see how it could have gone. Everything you make gets an image, a style and a place in time.
Formation of the Earth
from Earth
Where do you want to go? Pick a century.
From deep time to far beyond now. Tap a period and the world falls apart into continents; tap a continent and you are standing in the middle of what was happening. You do not need to know where to start — that is the whole point.
One sentence. And your timeline is there.
Type what your story is about, and Verno lays the moments out for you — years, subject and place already filled in. All you have to do is nod. What is wrong you throw out, what is missing you type in.
The VOC, from founding to collapse
Within a few minutes yours will be there too.
Start a timelineSee it happen.
Every moment gets its own image, made for this one moment and nothing else. You decide how far you go: a quick look, or masterful, with light and depth that stop you in your tracks. And once the image is there, you set it moving.
▶about fifteen secondsRomanesque abbey church under constructionWorld history · Approximate · 1140What will your style be?
Will your history be an oil painting, a faded photograph, a pencil sketch, or a night full of neon? Ten styles are ready. If yours is not among them, Verno invents one that fits your story alone.
Every year a place, every moment a face.
made in Verno
And on the other side of the world?
While the Company was being founded, plenty was happening that nobody talks about. Pin one moment and look sideways: the same years, other subjects, other continents. That is usually where your next timeline begins.
Turn one moment around, and see what happens.
What if Rome had never fallen? Ask the question at the moment before, and Verno builds the timeline that follows — beside the real one, so you can lay them side by side line for line. Invented, and it says so.
Rome had never fallen?
476 — what could have beenCurious how your own history would have run?
Try it yourselfEvery moment is a turning.
A timeline does not have to stay one line. Branch off from any moment into a new story, or tie yours to someone else's. What you build never stands alone — it grows into a web you can keep walking through.
1521The fall of Tenochtitlan
1521The attack is beaten back
What ifYou always know where you stand.
At every moment you see at a glance how certain it is, with the sources behind it. Click and you read what it is based on. Inventing is allowed here — encouraged, even — but then everyone knows it is invented.
And we are nowhere near finished.
These are being worked on. They are here so you know where this is going — not because they exist yet.
Where does your timeline begin?
With a century you want to know more about. With your own family. With a world that never existed. You get free credits to start, so feel free to see how far you get first.