title: What is an example of the simplest possible Socket.io example?
body: <p>So, I have been trying to understand Socket.io lately, but I am not a supergreat programmer, and almost every example I can find on the web (believe me I have looked for hours and hours), has extra stuff that complicates things. A lot of the examples do a bunch of things that confuse me, or connect to some weird database, or use coffeescript or tons of JS libraries that clutter things up.</p>
  
  <p>I'd love to see a basic, functioning example where the server just sends a message to the client every 10 seconds, saying what time it is, and the client writes that data to the page or throws up an alert, something very simple. Then I can figure things out from there, add stuff I need like db connections, etc. And yes I have checked the examples on the socket.io site and they don't work for me, and I don't understand what they do.</p>