GOOD MORNING, EARTHLINGS!
Cosmic Weather
Your daily briefing from the stranger side of the universe.
Stay up.
Tune in. Look around.
NITETIME PRESENTS / COMING ATTRACTIONS
The late show.
Checking the public schedule…
Station schedule details
All times Central.COMING ATTRACTIONS
Three nights of cinema, straight from the live broadcast schedule.
The coming attractions are tuning in…
EARLY MORNING STRANGENESS
Daily shows · all times Central
ALL ABOARD!
TRACKSIDE Railroad News
The railroad world never stops moving. Neither do we.
YOUR MODEM IS CALLING…
Tales from the Old Internet
Lost websites and strange discoveries from the early web.
AFTER THE MOVIE…
When the picture ends, the night begins.
The NITETIME After-Hours Music Party — exotica, intergalactic lounge, strange electronic rhythms and transmissions from the studio. The signal runs until 5 AM Central, with station time and weather through the night.
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Nightly features begin at 11 PM Central. The After-Hours Music Party continues until 5 AM, followed by the daytime rotation.
ARTWORK / PRINTS
Take something home.
Every purchase helps support NITETIME.NET and DJRC. Pick up some artwork or prints and help keep the music, broadcasts and the network going.
Original NITETIME artwork: thrift-store specials, updated and made into something else. Large wall-size prints and a series of postcards are available, too.
PRINTS AVAILABLE
Some originals may also be available. Ask at sales@nitetime.net.
MUSIC
300+ SONGS AND COUNTING.
We somehow made more than 300 songs. Instrumentals, experiments, soundtracks, lounge records and strange transmissions. Start with SoundCloud.
The full catalog is on SoundCloud. Free listening with ads. No subscription required.
HEAR THE FULL CATALOG ON SOUNDCLOUD →ALSO AVAILABLE ON
Selected releases, with more of the catalog on the way.
Listening guides & album notes in the Gopher music archive →
GREAT LAKES SURF REPORT
Fresh water.
After dark.
Five Great Lakes. Thirteen shoreline forecasts. A whole lot of night. Our surf report brings NOAA wave forecasts, wind, and moon information together for hardcore freshwater night surfers.
Explore the lakes, compare the hourly outlook, and follow the wave-and-moon timeline. Switch on Night Shift or check the next full and new moons.
Cold water. Dark shores. Serious conditions. Surf at your own risk.
OPEN THE GREAT LAKES SURF REPORT →THE GOPHER ARCHIVE
Go deeper.
Years of writing and project history. Recovered files, art, comics, original music, radio experiments and old computers. Local history and interactive adventures. A sprawling library behind the menus.
Gopher is a network of text menus and documents. This doorway opens it in your browser. Pick a direction, follow a link, find something you weren’t looking for.
ENTER THE GOPHER SERVER →Latest from the Gopher
Browse the latest changes in the full updates feed below.
A MULTIPLAYER TEXT ADVENTURE
ENTER THE NITETIME WORLD
There is a virtual world living inside nitetime.net.
You can enter it.
Explore strange places. Open doors. Examine objects. Talk to characters. Find hidden rooms. Follow stories. Discover things other visitors may never see.
It is a persistent text-based world called a MUD (multi-user dungeon), one of the original forms of online multiplayer adventure.
No download. No graphics required. Just imagination, curiosity, and a willingness to wander.
This is the doorway.
ENTER THE WORLD →NITETIME.NET RADIO
Take the signal with you.
The live broadcast, tuned for listening. Open the standalone radio player for a continuous MP3 stream with live song and program information.
See what is playing, then take the sound with you. Compatible phone media controls can show the title and station artwork; the title can travel to Bluetooth car displays.
OPEN THE RADIO PLAYER →NO FEEDS. NO ADS. NO BULLSHIT.
This is the open internet.
You choose what comes next. Look around. Follow links. Get lost.
There are still strange things hiding in the network.
ONE NETWORK. MANY DOORS.
Find your frequency.
Watch something. Leave a message.
Take the long way through the Internet.
01 / WATCH
Video Archive ↗
Browse the collection. Find a channel. Return to something worth watching.
ENTER THE ARCHIVE 02 / TALKChat / IRC ↗
Drop into the network’s IRC chat. A different room from the live broadcast.
JOIN IRC 03 / WANDERGopher ↗
Writing, recovered files, art and experiments. The deep shelves of NITETIME.
ENTER GOPHER 04 / RETRIEVEFiles ↗
The network’s file service. Browse what’s available.
OPEN FILES 05 / READNews / Usenet ↗
Another doorway into the Internet’s ongoing conversation.
OPEN USENET 06 / PLAYText Adventure ↗
Enter the NITETIME world. Explore places, follow stories and meet other players in your browser.
ENTER THE WORLD 07 / LISTENMusic ↑
300+ songs. Start with the full SoundCloud catalog, or find releases on other services.
FIND THE MUSIC 08 / TUNE INRadio ↗
The live NITETIME broadcast as an MP3 stream, with Now Playing information.
OPEN THE RADIO PLAYER