Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org )

TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

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Wow. Sort of feels like the inventor of time just died.

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