Fascinating read about the father of Internet time; the things we take for granted are so complex

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Oct 6, 2022
1:24:38am

BYUtiful All-American

Fascinating read about the father of Internet time; the things we take for granted are so complex

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time - Google News

In 1977, David Mills, an eccentric engineer and computer scientist, took a job at COMSAT, a satellite corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C. Mills was an inveterate tinkerer: he’d once built a hearing aid for a girlfriend’s uncle, and had consulted for Ford on how paper-tape computers...

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Fascinating read about the father of Internet time; the things we take for granted are so complex

BYUtiful All-American

10/6/22 1:24am

BYU grad David W. Allan also played a part as well

greatbam

10/6/22 4:57am

I thought Al Gore got all of the credit

BYULAWGUY

10/6/22 5:10am

RE: I thought Al Gore got all of the credit

greatbam

10/6/22 6:22am

Most fascinating part… guys microwave and oven clocks were out of synch…

kotacoug

10/6/22 7:13am

Yeah, I seriously considered buying that Amazon Alexa microwave just to have it sync the time properly

El Jefe

10/6/22 7:20am

He’s (nearly?) blind and doesn’t use those clocks or even can use those clocks

NYC and Japan

10/6/22 10:48am

A couple of interesting things to me about open source projects/efforts:

10/6/22 11:35am

Interesting point; labors of love will inevitably arouse strong feelings

BYUtiful

10/6/22 2:42pm

Supposedly this story relates to the OP. IDK how because I haven't read it but thought others might be interested

greatbam

10/6/22 11:49am

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