It was always a small source of joy on Discord to see Americans getting on the server while East Asians would go to sleep, with us Europeans being in the middle. It always feels so cute for some reason I can't explain, but I do love that every time.
Back in late 1990s I had xplanet-rendered sun-synchronous rotating Earth as my desktop background. It had the nicknames of our IRC channel regulars placed at their lat/long… it felt cyberpunk af.