1851 → 2026 / a historical research index

Follow the paper trail.

Search the people and potential identities surfaced from 21,264,134 local archive rows. Evidence from Eigen Times and Eigen Hacks connects the history of computing, radio, television, quantum research, space, and startups.

Eigenhacks / Hacker News

4,171,781

Distinct article IDs · 238 partitions
2006-10-09 to 2026-09-05

Eigen Times local news archive

16,488,269

Distinct article IDs · 2,983 partitions
1851-09-18 to 2026-09-05

Beyond the seed dictionary

106,907

Unreviewed name-shaped NYT keyword candidates from technology-context articles.

Coverage: every locally available partition was scanned. The local NYT files omit 1978-09 and 1978-10; checks of the official NYT Archive API on 2026-10-01 returned HTTP 200 with zero articles for those months. Name extraction is not exhaustive; the broader keyword index uses a documented heuristic. Candidate mentions never automatically become factual graph relationships.

Choose a name to follow its evidence.

Browse article references and coverage over time. Quarantined matches are excluded from the public evidence list and eigenvector histories.