[qcnguy]

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]

From 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]

But 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.

[mikestorrent]

> TCP/IP has already been replaced

Only in terms of the possible, not in terms of the real.

[nottorp]

> 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...