The world’s most popular Online Alarm Clock celebrates three years of operation. Online Clock takes a look back at how it became the internet’s favorite alarm clock.
Berlin, Germany, March 16, 2009 — Born in March, 2006, OnlineClock.net is currently celebrating its third anniversary!
OnlineClock.net was created from an idea which came to its 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 for a new website!
That’s why, when the idea of an Online Alarm Clock hit him like a lightning bolt one night, OnlineClock’s creator knew he had to immediately get out of bed and find a paper and pen to write down this great 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 website was made using Flash animation technology, 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 the first version of OnlineClock.net and was replaced with something similar to what we’re familiar with today on OnlineClock.net: 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 sound? (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 replaced, 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 very first website devoted to being an Online Alarm Clock. This was, at the time, a truly 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 all these alarm clock websites, probably due to its devotion to being extremely simple and simple to use.
Since its creation three years ago, OnlineClock.net has retained its original Online Alarm Clock function and left it relatively unchanged. Why? Simply because it’s been so successful. People love it, so we see no reason to change it.
New clocks have, however, been added to the Online Clock roster in the last three years.
These new clocks have usually been placed on subdomains from the main website. 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, OnlineClock.net revolutionized the web again by releasing 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, its Clock Radio is advertising-supported, and therefore free for everyone to use.
What further achievements does the future hold for OnlineClock.net?
Well, one thing’s for sure.
They’re sure to be alarmingly successful.
About OnlineClock
Online since March 24th, 2006, OnlineClock.net was the first website to go online and devote itself to being the world’s Online Alarm Clock. Online Clock strives to be the number one network for the simplest, most useful and best Online Clocks, Timers and Time Tools. For more information on the various Online Alarm Clocks offered for free by OnlineClock, please visit http://onlineclock.net/about/
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