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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 90 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We didn't. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those corporations are the ones who push for those layers to make it feel harder for you to do your own thing.

Fucking ignore them.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But they own everything...