Ancient Web: The Order of Time Built a 1998 Personal Universe Around the Clock

Part of the Ancient Web Collection.

Some personal sites collect photographs or recipes. The Order of Time collects an author's attempt to reorganize almost everything—daily rhythms, philosophy, politics, science, and the meaning of a clock.

Visit The Order of Time.

Its homepage announces that it has been on the internet since 1998. The page itself is a complicated arrangement of image navigation, tables, colored panels, and subject entrances. A footer menu leads to Info, Art, Cyber, Personal, Science, Spirituality, Politics, a Synopsis, and a Sitemap. It also offers a Dutch-language version.

The project calls its philosophy 'filognosy', described on the front page as the love of knowledge. It asks readers to approach contemporary issues through that conceptual lens and offers a 'Game of Order' wiki meant to help organize the ideas.

The most unusual clock in the menu

One of the more distinctive invitations is a 'tempometer', which the author says sets time by the Sun instead of conventional clock divisions. The homepage calls it the first running tempometer on the internet. That is the project's claim, not a verified invention priority.

The site also links pamphlets on energy policy and low-energy nuclear reactions, arguments about health and dieting, and a changing daily commentary. These are presented as parts of the same intellectual system rather than unrelated blog categories.

Their presence is not proof of the site's scientific or medical propositions. In particular, alternative energy and weight-loss claims should be treated as the author's speculation unless independently established, and not as practical advice.

What matters for the Ancient Web collection is the publishing structure. One webmaster has created a personal conceptual universe in linked documents and image-map-like navigation instead of handing each interest to a separate commercial platform. The site combines the late-1990s 'everything I think belongs here' impulse with a continuing set of updates and claims.

Several deeper linked pages did not provide reliable text during this review, so their arguments cannot be reconstructed in detail here. The publicly accessible homepage does establish the site's self-described launch era, the categories it uses, and its unusual clock-centered presentation.

This is preservation of a worldview as a web artifact, not an endorsement of the worldview itself.

Explore the Order of Time entrance and its linked topic map.

Part of the Ancient Web Collection.