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Probably distributed computing was not common at the time, so a truly universally unique identifier was not needed. And UUIDs were not used as database keys so
by rjh29 2y ago
Probably distributed computing was not common at the time, so a truly universally unique identifier was not needed. And UUIDs were not used as database keys so they did not need to be time ordered.
I still think they were quite naive. I mean, using MAC addresses in the UUID? Not great for privacy.
- dfox 2y agoUUIDs were invented for distributed computing. But distributed computing in the original true sense of the term, not in the current sense of getting horizontal scalability for what is in the end one big application.