Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. — On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced …
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@nonsequitur@mastodon.ie
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RIP to Dave Mills, the man behind the protocol that keeps the whole internet on time. Time never forgets its geniuses! — https://arstechnica.com/...
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RIP, Internet's Time Lord! I want to take a moment and say a silent prayer for David Mills, the creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), which is fundamental to the functioning of networks. Mills, nicknamed the Internet's Time Lord by his peers, passed away on January 17 at the...
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Charles Wu
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You get few opps to meet the creators of the world we take for granted now. While I never met Mills, I did meet Cerf when he was at MCI and other major RFC authors at various IETFs. It is like hearing the passing of early rock n rollers. A special time. https://arstechnica.com/..…
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@6502_ftw
Dave
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Oh dear. Huge loss. He was still largely maintaining the standard, AIUI.
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Jeff Woolsey
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NTP is foundational to how the world operates. A legend.
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@joedevon
Joe Devon
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Another legend passes. Time gets all of us, even the Time Lord. RIP David.