Instructions

Use your mouse to drag the timeline "indefinately" in either direction. The top bar is incremented in years, while the bottom is in decades. Since I am sure nothing of importance occurred before 1900 and after 2100, the incrementation becomes centries.
Click on the quick links to take you to that year, i.e. 1950 will take you to the year 1950 on the timeline.
The colored filters are there to highlight searchable text. For example, type Nollee in one of the filters and then go to year 2004 and you will see her birthday highlighted in the color you have chosen. This is not really useful, and may never be, but only time will tell.