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Cool list, but to be a party pooper: > Will Unix Time or TCP/IP ever be replaced? Modified: sure. UNIX time is already being replaced with a 64 bit value inst
by qcnguy 1y ago
Cool list, but to be a party pooper:
> Will Unix Time or TCP/IP ever be replaced? Modified: sure.
UNIX time is already being replaced with a 64 bit value instead of signed 32 bit. TCP/IP has already been replaced, that's QUIC over IPv6 which is what my computer uses every time it connects to Google.
I mean you can claim IPv6 is still "IP" because it shares the same first two letters, but IPv6 is different enough to be easily considered a different protocol.
- mzajc 1y agoFrom TFA: > Modified: sure. Fundamentally, IPv6 and 64 bit UNIX time are modifications of their predecessors. QUIC not so much, but it's still a long way from replacing TCP on the web, let alone the internet.
- Timwi 1y agoBut then you could argue that UNIX time is just a modification of other forms of date/time reckoning. It becomes a semantic debate over what counts as a separate thing, and that's not a fantastically interesting question anymore.
- nottorp 1y ago> QUIC over IPv6 which is what my computer uses every time it connects to Google. You don't have to adopt everything Google tells you to adopt, you know...
- mikestorrent 1y ago> TCP/IP has already been replaced Only in terms of the possible, not in terms of the real.