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Minutes that were already famous.

13 of 13 still unclaimed · priced by hand · no disasters, no deaths — what we will not sell

  1. 00:00The first minute in the register1900-01-01T00:00ZWhere this registry begins. Nothing happened in it that anyone recorded, which is most of what a register is for.$199.99
  2. 15:35Twelve seconds off the ground at Kill Devil Hills1903-12-17T15:35Z10:35 in the morning on the North Carolina coast. The flight covered 120 feet and lasted twelve seconds. Three more followed the same day.$149.99
  3. 06:00Half past eleven on the summit ridge1953-05-29T06:00ZLocal time in Nepal, on the morning of 29 May 1953. They stayed about fifteen minutes and went back down.$99.99
  4. 06:07Vostok 1 leaves the pad1961-04-12T06:07ZLaunch at 06:07 UTC from Baikonur. One orbit, 108 minutes, and the first person to see the whole planet at once.$149.99
  5. 20:17Contact light1969-07-20T20:17ZThe lunar module touched the surface at 20:17 UTC. The famous sentence came a few seconds later; the landing itself was this minute.$199.99
  6. 02:56The first footprint1969-07-21T02:56Z02:56 UTC on 21 July, six and a half hours after the landing. Roughly 600 million people were listening.$199.99
  7. 00:00Zero1970-01-01T00:00ZThe Unix epoch. Nearly every computer that has ever counted time counts from this minute, which makes it the most referenced minute in history and one nobody experienced as anything in particular.$199.99
  8. 00:00The first minute of coordinated time1971-10-01T00:00ZUTC as we now keep it began at the start of 1972, after this quarter of preparation. Every instant on this site is expressed in the scheme that follows from it.$49.99
  9. 23:59The last minute before the rollover1999-12-31T23:59ZNot the end of the century, which came a year later, but the minute the whole world had agreed to watch.$149.99
  10. 00:0000:00 on the first of January, 20002000-01-01T00:00ZMidnight UTC. Zero hour for a date nobody was sure the machines would survive, and which they mostly did because a great many people worked on it quietly for years.$199.99
  11. 00:00A leap day that only arrives every four hundred years2000-02-29T00:00ZYears divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. 1900 was not. 2000 was. The next is 2400.$99.99
  12. 03:14The minute the counter runs out2038-01-19T03:14ZA signed 32-bit count of seconds from the epoch overflows at 03:14:07 UTC on this date. A great deal of software has already been fixed. Some has not.$99.99
  13. 23:59The last minute in the register2099-12-31T23:59ZWhere this registry stops. Whoever holds it will not be here to see it, which is the point.$199.99

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