Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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This is it. The original pioneers of the net are starting to leave us. I hope we can take care of their baby as well as they did.
164 0 ReplyWe didn't. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.
53 0 ReplyThose corporations are the ones who push for those layers to make it feel harder for you to do your own thing.
Fucking ignore them.
24 0 ReplyBut they own everything...
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We're already fucking it up. Facebook and Xitter exist.
48 2 ReplyOn a more positive note, Facebook and XFormerlyKnowAsTwitter are not essential parts of the internet. You can choose to not use or care about them. It is much harder to not use NTP, and it's great that it is an open and comprehensible standard 👌
17 0 ReplyNot fucking it up, it's already fucked up. The internet is a dumpster fire.
10 1 ReplyAnd everyday is getting worse.
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