The thing about human invention is that occasionally, two or more people think of an idea around the same time, and it’s difficult to determine who was first. Such is the case with Swatch&#82… ...

A 2012 article of mine pondered the pace of digital change online—“Internet Time”: The Internet of 2012 is different from the Internet of 2002. What is more, there is little reason to ...

With the rise of smartwatches and cloud collaboration platforms, James Sanders say it's time to revisit an idea that Swatch proposed in 1998 about how people interact online.

The Internet Time Service operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves much of the Earth, with customers from around the globe. In one month of study alone, just ...

As the digital world grows smaller, the push for a single time zone gains momentum. Will Netizens buy 'Internet time'?

The internet obscures time traceability. Perhaps more important for a security-critical network is the validity of the source used by the time server that distributes time to your network.

So was the Internet intentionally designed to survive a nuclear attack? When TIME wrote this in the 1990s, one of the original designers, Bob Taylor, sent a letter objecting.