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

Ars Technica
By Benj EdwardsJan 19, 2024, 3:05 pm200 ptsTrending
Enlarge / A photo of David L. Mills taken by David Woolley on April 27, 2005. (credit: David Woolley / Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The…

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