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From Lawrence Page himself. Apparently back then you couldn't even set the User-agent header from Java's HTTP libraries.

Timestamp: Jan 7 1996, <strong>4:00 am</strong>

Nice!

I'm in California. It says 1 AM to me.

Hmm, to me it says 3:00 am. Is there some localization thing going on? I'm looking at it from Finland.

Yep, says 8am to me, from England. So whatever localization they're doing, it's quite badly broken - aren't you supposed to be 2 hrs ahead of me?

And now it says 11:00 am, when it's 23:25 here. Apparently quality of code didn't prevent Google from succeeding.