TechnologyEnglish · 11 months ago

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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TechnologyEnglish · 11 months ago

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

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85 seems too imprecise. It’s a shame they couldn’t give his age down to the last millisecond.
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  Precision time protocols were invented by someone else.

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