By: Natasha Baker
BANGKOK (REUTERS).- For people who have stood at a monument or scanned a landscape — the Great Wall of China, for instance, or the U.S. Grand Canyon — and wondered how it looked 100 or more years ago, there is now an app for you. Historypin, on iOS and Android platforms, strives to create a collection of memories about locations by counting on people to dig up and digitize old photographs and other media of the places, along with personal recollections of the past. Combined with modern pictures and memories, the app creates a story of a place for people to enjoy — a sort of “time machine in your pocket,” its backers say. “It’s about people coming together to create a web of human history”, said Nick Stanhope, chief executive of
We Are What We Do, a United Kingdom-based non-profit organization responsible for the Historypin project. The app uses GPS to find content that has been added within a certain