Loreline (loreline.live) is a collaborative storytelling and documentary platform where anyone can upload footage, photos, and clips and assemble them into a "loreline" — a living visual archive that plays back as a chronological documentary, with scenes ordered by the real date they happened.

How does Loreline work?

Each loreline is a timeline of scenes (photos, video clips, or embedded media such as YouTube). Scenes are placed by their real capture date, so the finished loreline plays back as a chronological documentary. Multiple people can contribute to the same public loreline, so the archive grows and evolves over time.

What can you do on Loreline?

You can create your own documentary from scratch, browse and watch public documentaries on topics like history, music, sports, film, and culture, contribute footage to open community archives, and embed any public loreline into a blog or article.

Is Loreline the same as the open-source interactive-fiction language?

No. loreline.live is a collaborative documentary and storytelling media platform for building chronological visual archives. It is unrelated to any same-named programming or interactive-fiction language.

History

119 public collections on Loreline.

Documentaries

Y CombinatorThe complete archive of Y Combinator (2005-2026) — from a walk home in Harvard Square to the most influential startup accelerator in the world. The full institutional history interwoven with YC's entire video library: every Startup School lecture, How to Start a Startup class, founder story and talk, from Zuckerberg in 2012 to the AI era. Hundreds of hours of the people, ideas and companies that built Silicon Valley's engine room.
Lama Ole NydahlThe life and work of Lama Ole Nydahl (1941–2026) — the Danish ex-boxer and adventurer who, with his wife Hannah, became the first Western students of the 16th Karmapa in the Himalayas and was sent home to bring Diamond Way Buddhism to the West. Told through his own photographs and teachings: from Copenhagen to Kathmandu, the first centers behind the Iron Curtain, fifty years on the road, more than 600 centers worldwide, and a two-week farewell at the Europe Center in 2026.
The Giant PandaA curated archive of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) — from the earliest Chinese references and its 1869 "discovery" by Père Armand David, through the age of expeditions and the first live cubs in the West, the long history of panda diplomacy, its rise as the global emblem of conservation, the hard-won science of captive breeding, and its life as a worldwide pop-culture icon.
ArtizenThe complete video archive of Artizen Fund (@artizenfund) — a crowdfunding and grants platform for artists. The channel traces a decade-long arc: from its origins as the Kaleidoscope VR film festival (2015-2017), through the XR-frontier interview years (2018-2019), a grants-and-bridge era, and into the Artizen platform era of weekly Showcases, Artizen Talks conversations, Presents features and funded-project films.
Paris HiltonA full, chaotic chronological biography of Paris Hilton — the hotel-dynasty heiress who became the defining It Girl of the 2000s and reinvented herself for every decade since. From a Waldorf-Astoria childhood and the Vanity Fair launch, through The Simple Life, the tabloid frenzy and the 2007 jail saga, into the "Stars Are Blind" pop era, the EDM-DJ years, the This Is Paris reckoning and her troubled-teen-industry advocacy, the NFT/metaverse rebrand, marriage and motherhood, the memoir, Infinite Icon, and losing her Malibu home to the 2025 wildfires.
WebZeroThe complete video archive of WebZero (@joinwebzero) — a media studio covering the Polkadot ecosystem at the world's biggest blockchain conferences. From the Blockspace Mansion at ETHDenver and Consensus Austin to Berlin Blockchain Week, Devcon Bangkok and the sub0 conference. Grouped by theme: aftermovies, keynote talks, developer workshops, Demo Day pitches, and panels.
ZcashA chronological archive of Zcash (ZEC) — the privacy cryptocurrency built on zero-knowledge proofs. From the Zerocoin and Zerocash papers out of Johns Hopkins, through the legendary multi-party "Ceremony" that bootstrapped its zk-SNARKs, the 2016 mainnet launch, the Sapling upgrade, the Founders' Reward fight, and Halo 2 finally removing the trusted setup — to the 2025–26 privacy-coin rally.
DopalaczeA chronological archive of Poland's "dopalacze" era — the legal-highs phenomenon. From the first smart shops (sklepy z dopalaczami) opening in 2008, through the October 2010 mass crackdown that sealed almost 1,400 shops, the 2015 "Mocarz" poisoning wave that hospitalised hundreds, to the laws that finally treated new psychoactive substances as drugs.
DappCon BerlinThe complete talk archive of DappCon Berlin — the annual Ethereum / decentralized-application developer conference. Every recorded session from the channel, edition by edition.
AlchemyA chronological archive of alchemy — the Royal Art — from Hellenistic Egypt and the Emerald Tablet, through the Islamic Golden Age, the Latin medieval West, the Renaissance of Paracelsus and Rudolfine Prague, the last great alchemists Newton and Boyle, and the long afterlife into modern chemistry and Jungian psychology.
AdvertisementsThe advertising canon — print, billboard, television, viral. From 18th-century newspaper notices through the Mad Men era, the 1984 Apple ad, Got Milk, Old Spice, Cadbury Gorilla, Dove Real Beauty, all the way to the TikTok-era viral commercial. The history of how brands talked to people.
FashionA full-scope history of fashion — from Egyptian linen and Roman togas through the medieval guilds and Versailles court, the birth of haute couture under Worth, Chanel's tweed, Dior's New Look, Saint Laurent's tuxedo, McQueen's spray-paint runway, Galliano's Dior, Demna's Vetements, and the streetwear era. Designers, garments, collections, and the moments that changed the silhouette.
ShipwrecksA chronicle of two hundred historic shipwrecks, from the Antikythera (c. 65 BC) to the MV Dali (2024). Each wreck a story: the vessel, the voyage, the disaster, the legacy. Built from Naufragia by Ludwig Vonmesser — a folio of the Codex Vloriensis.
TechnologyThe tech industry — companies, founders, products, and inflection moments that built the world we live in. From IBM's System/360 to OpenAI's ChatGPT; from the Homebrew Computer Club to the dot-com bubble, the iPhone keynote, the AI era.
PegassiPegassi — the Belgian producer redefining high-energy club music with his signature "bells" and a sound shaped by rave culture and his hip-hop upbringing. From the early remixes through the breakthrough Yoyoyo to Tomorrowland mainstages and 227kg going cult — every released track and every notable live set, in order.
Best Sports MomentsThe single greatest moments in sport — winning goals, walk-off home runs, photo-finishes, miracle comebacks, and the gestures of sportsmanship that outlasted the medal count.
BelgiumBelgian culture & memes — surrealism, comics, beer & fries, Brel to Stromae, Van Damme, the no-government record, and the deadpan absurdism of a small bilingual country.
CarsA chronological tour through automotive history — every iconic car, every load-bearing race, every culture-shifting moment. From Carl Benz's 1886 three-wheeler through the Model T, the GT40 vs Ferrari, the Lambo wedge era, Group B rally's death and rebirth, Senna at Imola, the Skyline GT-R, the Bugatti Veyron, Tesla, and Cybertruck.
SpaceThe spacecraft and missions that made the Space Age — Sputnik 1 to Artemis I, with the unmanned probes that mapped the solar system in between.
FilmsA hand-picked canon of films from Battleship Potemkin to Oppenheimer — the movies that changed how movies are made, watched, or remembered.
SmilesMoments where someone's face cracks open. Kid-meets-Santa, parent-sees-newborn, surprise-grandma, dog-greets-soldier — the small flashes of joy that the camera caught.
Funkhaus BerlinThe full history of the Funkhaus on Nalepastraße — built in the 1950s as the broadcasting heart of East Germany, designed by the Bauhaus architect Franz Ehrlich around the legendary Saal 1, one of the most perfect recording halls on Earth. From the voice of the GDR to silence after reunification to its rebirth as a world-class recording and concert campus — Nils Frahm, Boiler Room and a thousand sessions in between.
Extreme SportsA chronological archive of extreme sports across twelve disciplines — surf, skate, snow, BMX, moto, climbing, base/wingsuit, MMA, parkour, kayak, sled — from the founding moments to the present.
RaccoonsEvery meaningful raccoon moment in history — from 25-million-year-old Procyon fossils through Indigenous American mythology, the European zoo introductions, FDR's Thanksgiving raccoon Rebecca, Davy Crockett's coonskin cap, the Toronto raccoon Conrad's viral mourning, Pumpkin the Instagram raccoon, the CN Tower scaling, Tom Nook, Rocket, and the Trash Panda meme. The full-scope masked-bandit canon.
Polish cultureDeep chronological catalogue of Polish‚ culture — from PRL-era TV quotes + Bareja films that became permanent reference layers, through Demotywatory + Kwejk + Wykop, through patostreamy + Klocuch, to TVP-ironic, Strajk Kobiet, Sasin's 70 million, Friz, Mentzen, and the current sigma-skibidi Polish-flavour brain-rot wave.
RiverwatchThe fight to protect the last free-flowing rivers of the Balkans — from the Vjosa to the Neretva and Drina. RiverWatch and EuroNatur's campaign against a wave of roughly 2,700 planned dams, told river by river. Rivers unite, dams divide.
PolandA thousand years of Poland — Piast kings, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the three Partitions that erased Poland from the map, WWI rebirth, WWII catastrophe, Solidarność, the EU. From Mieszko I's baptism (966) to the modern Third Republic.
Evolution of MediaA curated chronology of communication technology from cave paintings to generative AI. 58 moments across 8 eras — every layer of the medium that became the substrate of the next.
GIfsAn animated chronicle of the GIF, from CompuServe in 1987 to the post-TikTok afterlife. The format that refused to die, told as moments. Built from The GIF Oracle by Ludwig Vonmesser (https://gif-oracle.vercel.app/) — 73 moments across 7 eras.
Prague's storyAn illuminated chronicle of Prague, beside the Vltava, from Bořivoj's hilltop fortress in the ninth century to the Velvet Republic. Built from Chronica Pragensia by Ludwig Vonmesser (https://prague-oracle.vercel.app/) with thematic regrouping into city-lore segments. 135 folios → 135 scenes.
CypherpunkA chronicle of cypherpunk, crypto-anarchist, Bitcoin, and Ethereum history — 97 moments from Chaum's 1981 mix-network paper to the present day. Built from The Cyberpunk Oracle by Ludwig Vonmesser — a folio of the Codex Vloriensis.
FirstEvery invention or technological first that mattered — from Oldowan stone tools (2.6 million BC) to text-to-video generative AI (2024). 84 firsts across 8 eras.
AndévaloThe rolling pyrite-and-pasture borderland of western Huelva — from Megalithic dolmens through Tartessos, the Reconquista, the British mining boom, and a present-day landscape of empty villages on the Portuguese frontier. With Santa Bárbara de Casa as the showcase village.
TrapaniA documentary loreline of Trapani and its province — the sickle-shaped harbour of western Sicily, the white pyramids of the salt pans, the bloody ritual of the tuna mattanza, medieval Erice on its mountain, the Egadi Islands, Marsala wine, and the Greek and Phoenician ruins that ring the coast. Thematic chapters across the corner of Sicily where Europe meets Africa.
BerlinA documentary loreline of Berlin — Prussian capital, Weimar wildness, the dark Reich years, the Wall and its fall, and the techno-soaked, art-drenched, currywurst-fuelled metropolis it became. Thematic chapters across the city’s history and culture.
Architectural WondersThe buildings — and a few cities — that defined how humans live in space. From Göbekli Tepe's 11,500-year-old stone circles to the 828m Burj Khalifa.
The Meme OracleA chronicle of the self-replicating image, from Kilroy Was Here in 1939 to Skibidi Toilet in 2023. Built from The Meme Oracle by Ludwig Vonmesser (https://meme-oracle.vercel.app/) — a folio of the Codex Vloriensis. 10 moments across 8 eras.
Farewell To WestphaliaA chronicle of the sovereign nation state as a 380-year technology, from the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 to the present moment of contested sovereignty. Built from The Westphalia Oracle by Ludwig Vonmesser — a folio of the Codex Vloriensis, research companion to Farewell to Westphalia by Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow. 120 folios across 10 eras.

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