[1] Released on September 22, 2011, it was developed by the software company Landka in collaboration with scientific institutions such as ESA/Hubble Space Telescope.

[8][9] In order to better understand these timescales, the app proposes a time analogy where the entire age of the universe (13.7 billion years) is scaled into a 24-hour clock.

This analogy was originally proposed by Astronomer Bob Lambert from the John J. McCarthy Observatory as a tool for helping students visualizing large timescales.

[1] analogy * milliseconds before midnight Back in Time was developed by the Portuguese software company Landka over a period of 10 months.

Subsequent upgrades included additional chapters, translation into two more languages (Chinese and Japanese) and support for retina display.