Happy Birthday Online Clock

OnlineClock.net Celebrates Three Alarmingly Successful Years

Born in March, 2006, OnlineClock.net is currently celebrating its third anniversary!

OnlineClock.net was created from an idea which came to the creator late in bed one night while he couldn’t sleep. He was working as a web developer and webmaster and had for years tinkered in his free time building websites for himself as a hobby.

Still, the ultimate success of creating a website which everyone would find useful eluded him. What this developer needed was an idea – a really good idea.

That’s why, when the idea of an Online Alarm Clock hit him like a lightning bolt that night, OnlineClock’s creator knew he had to immediately spring up, out of bed and find a paper and pen to write down his idea so that it wouldn’t be forgotten the next day when he got up to go to work.

The first version of the Online Alarm Clock was made using Flash animation, but this wasn’t optimal because the site had to finance itself via advertising, in order to at least pay for its own hosting costs and domain registrations. A website made out of Flash animation does not need to be reloaded, and this is very bad for advertising delivery. So the Flash was removed from OnlineClock.net and was replaced with the version we’re familiar with today: a javascript application with red LED images for numbers.

How many people know that the first version of the Online Alarm Clock actually presented a choice of music or buzzer for an alarm? (Hint: it might still be possible to view copies of this earlier version on Archive.org.) This version of the internet alarm clock was quickly scrapped, however, because it was soon discovered that the strength and success of the world’s most popular web alarm clock lays in its simplicity and minimal design.

Back in March, 2006, when OnlineClock.net first went live, it truly was the world’s first website devoted to being an Online Alarm Clock. This was, at the time, a revolutionary idea.

It didn’t take long, however, for the first imitators to spring up, and now there are dozens of such sites online.

The enduring popularity and success of OnlineClock.net, however, is testament to the fact that it is still the best and most beloved of such sites, probably due to its devotion to being extremely simple and easy to use.

Since its creation, OnlineClock.net has retained its original Online Alarm Clock and left it relatively unchanged. Why? Simply because it’s been so successful.

Happy Birthday, Online Clock

New clocks have, however, been added to the Online Clock roster.

These new clocks have usually been placed on subdomains. Such new, additional clocks include an Online Stopwatch , a Countdown Timer , an Analog Alarm Clock, a Binary Alarm Clock, a Mobile Alarm Clock, a version of the original Online Alarm Clock in the Military Time format, and even a novel Space Clock.

No discussion of the evolution of OnlineClock.net would be complete, however, without mentioning its masterpiece: the online Clock Radio for your web browser.

Indeed, in 2008, after having been online for two years already, OnlineClock.net produced another ground-breaking innovation: the introduction of the world’s first clock radio you can use directly in your web browser.

As with all of OnlineClock.net’s fine products, the Clock Radio is advertising-supported and therefore free for everyone to use.

What does the future hold for OnlineClock.net?

Well, we’re sure of one thing.

Whatever it is, it’ll be alarmingly successful.

[Do you use our Online Alarm Clock? If so, please send us some birthday well wishes via the comment form below!]

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