Re:Swatch Internet Time (1998)
by tinbucket on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:59AM
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I remember this being a minor fad around this when I had my first, handcoded website hosted on the 5MB of webspace my dial-up ISP gave me. I'm pretty sure I heard about it from one of the other regulars on irc.scifi.com, the Sci-Fi Channel's IRC server that I used to frequent.
With a little cut-and-paste of some code from Swatch's website you could have a GIF 'clock' on your site that showed the 'internet time' to your visitors. Utterly pointless, but harmless fun.
Re:Swatch Internet Time (1998)
by Cyberdog on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:23AM
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Apple had an IRC server too. It seemed to be one of the kinds of servers that many companies had back in the day, perhaps sitting next to their Gopher server.
With a little cut-and-paste of some code from Swatch's website you could have a GIF 'clock' on your site that showed the 'internet time' to your visitors. Utterly pointless, but harmless fun.