Every submission or story with more than ca. 3 replies can be found in the interactive plot. Similar content is grouped near to each other. See the "Details" in the sidebar for more technical background information.
True, the topics do not have dates and a timestamp of 0.0 equals January 1st 1970. Interesting that it shows Dec31, 1969 for you. Maybe I could have used the average or first time of all the comments of that topic for the time of that topic.