Published on October 22nd, 2013 | by neversa3
0Onlineclock.net The Board Game
OnlineClock.net was created by a lonely web programmer back in 2006. He came up with the idea for a website you use as an alarm clock one night while he lay in bed, suffering from insomnia. Immediately recognizing the idea as a good one, he sprung out of bed and wrote it down on a piece of paper…The very next day, the world’s original Online Alarm Clock website was born!
“Online Clock – The Board Game”, An Infographic by OnlineClock.net
Play The Online Clock Game:
1. Start: Light-bulb going off above head: Getting the idea
for the Online Alarm Clock
- March 24, 2006: OnlineClock.net went online with the first version after waking up and seeing the note, “Create website to use as an alarm clock”
- Place your figure on “Start”
2. Getting Listed on the 1st Page of Digg.com
- September 26, 2006: Our first big break: we made it to the front page of Digg !
- Go ahead 5 steps!
3. Getting Kicked Off our 1st Web Hoster for Having Too Much Traffic
- September, 2006: Our original web hoster “kicks us off” their web servers because we get too much traffic. Time for our first dedicated server!
- Go back 1 step!
4. Added Countdown Timer & Online Stopwatch
- In early 2007, we began expanding our site to include more clocks
- Go ahead 1 step!
5. Switched Web Hoster while on Tropical Vacation
- November, 2007: The web hoster of our dedicated server FAILS big-time, and I’m required to switch web hosters while on vacation in the Canary Islands (using WiFi in the hotel lobby!)
- Go back 2 steps!
6. Getting Threatened with the Serbian Mafia
- August 2nd, 2008: The owner of a competitor website threatened me with the Serbian Mafia (true story!…I have the email to prove it & proper authorities have been notified)
- Go back 2 steps!
7. Joined Facebook, Twitter & Started Our Own Blog
- October 14, 2008: Published our first blog post on The Alarm Clock Blog
- Go ahead 1 step!
8. Added Online Timer
- June, 2009: Created our Online Timer, which quickly became very popular!
- Go ahead 1 step!
9. Hacker Attack! Hackers Added Spam to our Site, We Temporarily Got Kicked Out of Google
- September, 2009: Hackers attacked OnlineClock.net, adding spam to our start page. Though we briefly flew out of Google’s index, we cleaned up the spam and ended back in Google in a couple of days!
- Go back 5 steps!
10. Created World’s First Web-Based Clock Radio
- September, 2009: Online Clock invents the world’s first web-browser based version of a Clock Radio (our PR Release on this came much later)
- Go ahead 1 step!
11. Switch to Cloud Hosting
- February, 2010: OnlineClock.net moves to Cloud Web Hosting to ensure maximum up-time. Great for up-time, but it increased our hosting bill!
- Go back 1 step!
12. Getting Mentioned by The New York Times (view of their Newspaper?)
- June 10th, 2010: Online Clock is mentioned in a New York Times article
- Go ahead 1 step!
13. 4 Million Unique Visitors in 1 Month ! (Milestone)
- April, 2013: For the first time Online Clock has more than 4 million unique visitors in one month
- Go ahead 2 step!
14. DDoS Attack!
- July, 2013: Online Clock gets hit with a DDoS attack! The web server never goes down, and the attack is eventually thwarted. As a result, our Cloud Hoster first tries to bill us for all of the extra traffic
- Go back 4 steps!
15. End: We made this Infographic!
- Congratulations…you win! What’s next?