Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
    • tychosmoose@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Better to represent it as a 64-bit unsigned fixed-point number, in seconds relative to 0000 UT on 1 January 1900. It’s how he would have wanted it.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • BudgieMania@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    To paraphrase Churchill “Never was so much owed by so many to a single man”, NTP has been a critical aspect of XXIst century, from making highly complex clusterized systems work reliably to saving you the pain of adjusting the clock in your smartphone. If you have used even a single networked electronic device for a millisecond in your life, you owe the man some thanks.

    • RedAggroBest@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      XXIst

      I’ve been seeing this on Lemmy lately, why are people going to roman numerals? Do we hate Arabic now? It’s not saving keystrokes unless I’m crazy?

      • BudgieMania@kbin.social
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        8 months ago

        in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it’s very hard to shake off, apologies

  • pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    And could we please all remember the age of these folks and people like Vint Cerf when some fool drags out that old canard about old people not understanding new technology. No, only lazy or stupid old people don’t understand technology they didn’t grow up with. There’s just lots of them. And unless you are open minded and put in the effort, then you could end up fitting the stereotype because many of us are not as smart as we think

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      No, only lazy or stupid old people don’t understand technology they didn’t grow up with.

      In fairness, plenty of young lazy and stupid people also don’t understand technology they did grow up with.

      Consumerism breeds sloth.

      Kings and Queens of convenience who know no lack, will never learn to hack.

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I always really liked that NTP uses port 123 which is the same number that you can dial, in the uk, on a analogue, landline phone, to call an automated service that tells you the precise time.