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by CorpOverreach 1369 days ago
My first interaction with this was with Phantasy Star Online on the Nintendo GameCube. (Yes, it did have online connectivity!)

PSO would display the current time in .beats - a concept I thought was amazing at the time, showing the same time for everyone in an MMORPG made total sense. Sadly that's the only real-life application I remember seeing of it.