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An old drawing of a snake in a circle, biting its own tail. This snake rotates, but so slowly it's barely noticeable.
An old drawing of an hourglass, located right inside the rotating snake. The original image looks exactly like this,only without the rotation, naturally.
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Caesar's head
A fancy, round, complex medieval calendar
Pope Gregory

365 + 14 – 1300

  • Divisible by 4: leap year
  • Divisible by 100: not a leap year
  • Divisible by 400: leap year
The first page of the Inter Gravissimas papal bull
A map of Europe
A map of Europe with the catholic countries (mostly Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, and Poland) marked, in their borders at that time

1582

3. 16.

September 2019

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A map of Europe with the UK (or whatever this island was known as at the time) marked

1751

A map of Europe with Russia marked

1918

Napoleon Bonaparte
Old Swedish flag
A map of Europe with Sweden marked

1700–1750

An old car. Sorry, I'm not an expert, I really don't know more than that.
The logo of the H-Day transition.

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A map of Europe with the Hanseatic League marked

1400

A very impressive, complex old telephone exchange office
An old image of three castles, each on a hill, very close to each other.
A picture of a library, all walls covered in books
  • Meetups
  • Conferences
  • Blog posts
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • ???
  • Frontend vs Backend
  • Web vs Data
  • Python vs Rust vs …
  • Coding vs Documentation vs Management
  • Software vs Civil Engineering vs Healthcare vs …
  • Creative vs Structured
  • ???

# Sources

Nearly all images were taken from the public domain uploads by the British Library on flickr. Individual sources:
  • Progress bar
  • Hourglass
  • Waiting
  • Hand
  • End
  • Caesar
  • Sweden
  • Map of Europe
  • Inter Gravissimas
  • Medieval calendar
  • Castle
  • Car
  • H-Day
  • Gregory XIII
  • Telephone exchange
  • Library
An old drawing of a globe and some other decorative junk, plus a sign reading FIN

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