Timelines on the Internet

I have recently become interested in creating timelines on the Internet. Surely using this great new medium (the Net) there is a revolutionary way of presenting timeline data. So I have been searching around the Internet to see what I can find, and alas, it appears that most timelines are simply a list of dates with the corresponding events. It seems to me that this is a boring way of presenting data and does not harness the power of the Net.

What would you consider the best way of presenting timeline data on the Internet? Is Flash the answer so we can make timelines more interactive? Or has the Internet not evolved enough yet to present data in a new and revolutionary manner?

My early attempts have led me to attempt a Flash solution. What I have done so far can be viewed at (www.websonix.ca/tim/index.html). This is a beginning, but I can’t help but believe that there is so much more that could be done.