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Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time

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Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time

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Mills created the Network Time Protocol, which enables any device online to know precisely what time it is.

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What a legend. The significance of NTP cannot be understated. The internet as we know it could not work without it.

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