PC Gamer

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

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The Verge

David L. Mills, who invented the internet’s time-keeping protocol, is dead at 85.

Ars Technica reported last week that he had peacefully passed away on January 17th. Mills was responsible for the profoundly important creation of Network Time Protocol (NTP), the protocol that ...
The New York Times

David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85

He developed and implemented the protocol that synchronizes the digital clocks nestled within billions of networked devices. By Clay Risen David L. Mills, an internet pioneer who developed and, for ...