2024-01-20
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/...
Ars Technica
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 …