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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 | Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

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

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 announcement came in a post on the Internet Society mailing list after Cerf was informed of David's death by Mills' daughter, Leigh. Advertisement As detailed in an excellent 2022 New Yorker profile by Nate Hopper, Mills faced significant challenges in maintaining and evolving the protocol, especially as the Internet grew in scale and complexity.

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