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===Reception===
 
===Reception===
* The comic has its own {{w|Time (xkcd)|article}} on Wikipedia.
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*The comic has its own {{w|Time (xkcd)|article}} on Wikipedia.
* The comic was awarded the [http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08/2014-hugo-award-winners/ 2014 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story].
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*The comic was awarded the [http://www.thehugoawards.org/2014/08/2014-hugo-award-winners/ 2014 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story].
* The comic has [https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki its very own wiki] with over a thousand pages on that one strip.
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*The comic has [https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/XKCD_Time_Wiki its very own wiki] with over a thousand pages on that one strip.
* [[Cory Doctorow]] of {{w|Boing Boing}} saying it was "[http://boingboing.net/2013/04/07/time-xkcds-slo-mo-time-laps.html coming along nicely]" during publishing with an "[https://boingboing.net/2013/08/04/astounding-backstory-behind-xk.html astounding backstory]" upon its conclusion.
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*{{w|Cory Doctorow}} of {{w|Boing Boing}} saying it was "[http://boingboing.net/2013/04/07/time-xkcds-slo-mo-time-laps.html coming along nicely]" during publishing with an "[https://boingboing.net/2013/08/04/astounding-backstory-behind-xk.html astounding backstory]" upon its conclusion.
* The Verge’s Jeff Blagdon called the journey "[https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4567134/xkcd-time-comic-finishes-after-four-months-3000-panels epic]".
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*The Verge’s Jeff Blagdon called the journey "[https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4567134/xkcd-time-comic-finishes-after-four-months-3000-panels epic]".
* Wired’s Laura Hudson also suitably referred the comic strip as "[https://www.wired.com/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/ epic]".
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*Wired’s Laura Hudson also suitably referred the comic strip as "[https://www.wired.com/2013/08/xkcd-time-comic/ epic]".
* The story was also [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/07/30/a-brief-history-of-time-the-xkcd-comic/ reported] by Washington Post’s Andrea Peterson.
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*The story was also [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/07/30/a-brief-history-of-time-the-xkcd-comic/ reported] by Washington Post’s Andrea Peterson.
* The comic garnered "obsessive" attention from viewers on xkcd's forum, with a discussion thread that exceeds [http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043&start=999999999 2,500 pages and 100,000 posts].
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*The comic garnered "obsessive" attention from viewers on xkcd's forum, with a discussion thread that exceeds [http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043&start=999999999 2,500 pages and 100,000 posts].
* "Time" had developed a fanatical following that pored over every update pixel by pixel and gathered online to trade [http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_end_of_comic_theories theories], decipher clues, and even [https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_written_in_the_forum write songs].
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*"Time" had developed a fanatical following that pored over every update pixel by pixel and gathered online to trade [http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_end_of_comic_theories theories], decipher clues, and even [https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_written_in_the_forum write songs].
  
 
===Format===
 
===Format===
This comic is a series of images which play as a rough animation. The pictures were updated over the course of time. The comic ran for 2973 hours (over 124 days) and consists of 3101 image frames. For the first 120 hours, a new frame replaced the previous frame every 30 minutes, at :00 and :30 of each hour; the remaining frames have since been revealed every hour. The update was done server-side, with the server redirecting the image link (time.png) to a different image every hour. The source images have very long random hash names, which made it virtually impossible to access future frames. There is no way to view past frames on the official xkcd website, and only the current frame is posted there at any given time. Given the unique nature of this comic, the full image archives can be browsed through several websites that have been dedicated to tracking it (see below).
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This comic is actually a series of images which play as a rough animation. The pictures were updated over the course of time. The comic ran for 2973 hours (over 124 days) and consists of 3101 image frames.
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For the first 120 hours, a new frame replaced the previous frame every 30 minutes, at :00 and :30 of each hour; the remaining frames have since been revealed every hour. The update was done server-side, with the server redirecting the image link (time.png) to a different image every hour. The source images have very long random hash names, which made it virtually impossible to access future frames. There is no way to view past frames on the official xkcd website, and only the current frame is posted there at any given time. Given the unique nature of this comic, the full image archives can be browsed through several websites that have been dedicated to tracking it (see below).
  
 
Readers typically have divided the comic into four scenes (see below). For example, at 850 hours (36 days 10 hours) the first "scene" of the comic ended at frame 971 with a fade to white, ushering in a second scene from frame 972. Some of the last few frames of scene 1 are nearly white, but faint images can be seen in the normalized pictures available below (Day 36, Monday, April 29, 2013, normalized).
 
Readers typically have divided the comic into four scenes (see below). For example, at 850 hours (36 days 10 hours) the first "scene" of the comic ended at frame 971 with a fade to white, ushering in a second scene from frame 972. Some of the last few frames of scene 1 are nearly white, but faint images can be seen in the normalized pictures available below (Day 36, Monday, April 29, 2013, normalized).

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