Fluid timeline social network

A method, comprising:

• establishing, by a user computing device, a communicative relationship with a computing server that stores a plurality of stories generated by users of a time-based social network, each story of the plurality of stories associated with a user-specified date;
• receiving, at the user computing device, a selected time period from a user;
• sending, from the user computing device to the computing server, a first input direction for one or more first subsets of stories for the selected time period;
• receiving, at the user computing device from the computing server, the one or more first subsets of stories;
• and
• presenting, by the user computing device, the one or more first subsets of stories to the user in a column arrangement with each separate subset being presented in a separate column.

A time-based social network architecture, comprising:

• a story database to store stories generated by users of a time-based social network;
• and
• a server computer that includes:
• at least one processor that executes computer instructions;
• and
• a memory that stores the computer instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
• receive from a first user computer device a created story;
• receive from the first user computer device a user-specified date to be associated with the created story;
• store the created story in associated with the user-specified date in the story database;
• receive, from a second user computer device, a request for stories for a selected time period;
• select a first plurality of stories associated with the selected time period and a second plurality of stories associated with a date sequentially later or sequentially earlier than the selected time period, wherein the created story is included in one of the first or second plurality of stories;
• and
• deliver the first and second plurality of stories to the second user computer device to be presented in a column arrangement with each the first and second plurality of stories being presented in a separate column and horizontally scrollable based on the selected time period.

An operating system including computer instructions that, when executed by a processor on a computer, cause the processor to perform actions, the actions comprising:

• receiving a selected time period from a user in which to access a portion of a plurality of stories generated by users of a time-based social network, each story of the plurality of stories is associated with a user-specified date;
• accessing the plurality of subsets of stories from the plurality of stories based on the user-specified date of each story and the selected time period;
• and
• presenting the plurality of subsets of stories to the user in a column arrangement with each separate subset being presented in a separate vertically scrollable column and the plurality of subsets being horizontally scrollable by date.