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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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jherazob@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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    I give you PIN number and ATM machine

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      nobody says those that way in real life. I only hear people say “I went to the ATM” “I forgot my PIN”

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        Only people who no longer pin stuff to a pin board would say just pin for a PIN number… and if those are already majority, then RIP Pinterest.

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        PIN number is pretty ubiquitous

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      “LED diode”

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