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Human Clock

214 points| cookingoils | 5 years ago |humanclock.com | reply

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[+] crystite|5 years ago|reply
The Atari Web Server he's using is one of my favorite pages on the internet. https://humanclock.com/atariserver.php

For real, I traded Atari games with Craig, the author of this site, in the late 1990's. He is an amazing dude. He also rode his bike around Australia and did a website about it: https://lunky.com/.

[+] js2|5 years ago|reply
Oh, literally around! As in circumnavigate.

(I once circumnavigated a country on foot but it was merely the Vatican.)

Years ago there was a beautiful book published called From Alice to Ocean about a woman who walked across the Western deserts of Australia:

https://www.amazon.com/Alice-Ocean-Alone-Across-Outback/dp/0...

It was notable at the time also because it was one of the early uses of CD-ROM to add a multimedia component.

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/s94/students/nataliez/nata...

[+] yboris|5 years ago|reply
Reminds me of the brilliant The Clock (2010 film)

> a 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces.

It's played synchronized with the actual time of day. I got to see it in a museum in London. It was awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

[+] kawera|5 years ago|reply
Fantastic video! I got to see it in São Paulo and went there three times in different hours of the day... mesmerising.
[+] jedimastert|5 years ago|reply
I'm reminded of a video installation somewhere of a clock where ever minute a guy repaints the minute line, but I don't remember where or what it was...does this ring a bell with anyone?
[+] remram|5 years ago|reply
Reminds me of the pointerpointer.com
[+] podiki|5 years ago|reply
Hahaha that's great! I wonder if it is just a static catalog of images, or uses all that fancy machine vision to find new images...
[+] sunnyam|5 years ago|reply
This reminds me of Pharrell Williams' 24 Hours of Happy [1] which was a website that you could visit and it would show a music video timed to that minute. On the hour, ever hour, there would be a special music video with the Pharrell instead.

The song was a real earworm and I'm sure people got sick of it but I really loved that website. Even though the song became a bit too much at times, it was a brilliant thing to watch.

[1]: The website is down now but the videos are all here on his Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKPi39tTpkdpjBVQZo5oF...

[+] bitwize|5 years ago|reply
Cool, a web toy like they used to make 'em, back when the web was fun and the possibilities seemed endless.
[+] khazhoux|5 years ago|reply
Yup, this immediately screamed "old web" to me.

Now I just refresh reddit and HN :-\

[+] devenblake|5 years ago|reply
Woah. I open it up at 08:44 and the picture is from less than fifty miles away from me. Small world. (I live in Maine.)
[+] dhammack|5 years ago|reply
Thanks for posting. In the early 2000's me, my brothers, and my dad spent several months taking pictures and submitting each sequential minute between 8-9. Looking back probably 20 years later now it is quite amusing to still see the pictures there! It has been a long time since I heard about the human clock.
[+] anotherevan|5 years ago|reply
I want an API to this so I can use it for desktop background images.
[+] mariodiana|5 years ago|reply
This is the brother of a former housemate of mine, from almost 20 years ago. I emailed him back then to tell him I saw the site and thought it was cool. He told me I should check out his other site: humancock.com.

When I clicked that, the page loaded and read something like, "Shame on you!"

Wise guy, that guy ;-)

[+] schwartzworld|5 years ago|reply
Interestingly the town of Fucking just voted to legally change its name.
[+] Cockbrand|5 years ago|reply
Fantastic and quite fun! This has been around for quite a while. I remember being obsessed with contributing to the Human Clock back in the day. I might go and search for my contributions over the holidays.
[+] ImpressiveWebs|5 years ago|reply
I happen to click at exactly 4:50 and it was a photo of the cover of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 450. Well played.
[+] dwighttk|5 years ago|reply
Is that a prequel to Fahrenheit 451? What burns at 450°?
[+] raindropm|5 years ago|reply
I love it. Back then when internet used to be weird and fun, and not all about profit or fame...
[+] dmortin|5 years ago|reply
Nice, but not perfect, at 6:05am I was shown an image of 16:05, so it was off by 10 hours.
[+] jcun4128|5 years ago|reply
Wow it took me a bit to figure out what was happening. How neat
[+] waihtis|5 years ago|reply
About one minute or less?
[+] arondeparon|5 years ago|reply
We need this, but with livestreamed cameras found on Shodan.