3rd August 2026
Scroll down. The story and the clock both advance.
The clock at the top is exact. It ends at t = 0.211 400 s.
When the story pauses for a lesson, the clock at the top freezes and turns white. Keep scrolling; it picks the story back up.
Violet marks the data as it moves, always top to bottom. Nothing else on the page uses that color.
Similar to the interview question "describe what happens when you click search on google.com", this page does a great job of demonstrating the enormous number of technologies that make up the hardware/computing/networking/internet ecosystem.
The fact this system works is both remarkable and inevitable. If any of these systems didn't exist - someone would just invent it.