Enlarge / A photograph of David L. Mills taken by Raul654 on April 27, 2005. (credit score: Raul654 / Benj Edwards / Getty Pictures)
On Thursday, Web pioneer Vint Cerf introduced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Community Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement got here in a publish on the Web Society mailing listing after Cerf was knowledgeable of David’s dying by Mills’ daughter, Leigh.
“He was such an iconic factor of the early Web,” wrote Cerf.
Dr. Mills created the Community Time Protocol (NTP) in 1985 to deal with a vital problem within the on-line world: the synchronization of time throughout completely different pc methods and networks. In a digital setting the place computer systems and servers are positioned all around the world, every with its personal inside clock, there is a vital want for a standardized and correct timekeeping system.
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