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28 Νοε 2023 · A few months before Swatch’s announcement of .beats time, a Argentinian drummer named [Charly Alberti] came up with the same idea and created a website for it to display the current Internet...
23 Νοε 2023 · In 1998, Swatch introduced a radical concept: Internet Time, a universal time system for the web that divided the day into 1,000 “.beats” instead of hours, minutes, and seconds. The Swiss watchmaker even launched a line of futuristic wristwatches that displayed the time in .beats. But was this a Swatch idea?
Why use Internet Time? Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about timezones. For example, if a New York web-supporter makes a date for a chat with a cyber friend in Rome, they can simply agree to meet at an "@ time" - because internet time is the same all over the world.
Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time) is a decimal time system introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of ".beat" watches. Those without a watch can use the Internet to view the current time, [1] originally on the watchmaker's website. The concept is similar to decimal minutes in French Revolutionary decimal time.
New opportunities beyond the watch market have been explored recently (e.g., telecom, cars), but they did not live up to expectations. In October 1998, the Swatch Group launched Swatch Internet Time (SIT). SIT divided every day into 1,000 "beats" equivalent to 86.4 seconds each.
19 Φεβ 2014 · The idea was called ".beat time" and "internet time," and was supposed to simplify communicating across the world in the age of the internet by doing away with timezones and small units like seconds, instead dividing the day into 1000 event units.
23 Νοε 2023 · In 1998, Swatch introduced a radical concept: Internet Time, a universal time system for the web that divided the day into 1,000 “.beats” instead of hours, minutes, and seconds. The Swiss watchmaker even launched a line of futuristic wristwatches that displayed the time in .beats. But was this a Swatch idea?
