We didn’t. It has become a stinking pile of layers not even organizations worth hundreds of millions can put together anymore.
Comment on Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 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.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
4am@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
But they own everything…
LunarVoyager@lemmy.world 11 months ago
db2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We’re already fucking it up. Facebook and Xitter exist.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 11 months ago
Not fucking it up, it’s already fucked up. The internet is a dumpster fire.
SVcross@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And everyday is getting worse.
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
On 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 👌