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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

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Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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    I always really liked that NTP uses port 123 which is the same number that you can dial, in the uk, on a analogue, landline phone, to call an automated service that tells you the precise time.

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      14•1 year ago

      1194 in Australia, it was discontinued in 2019 after 66 years. It’s now on the internet http://1194online.com/

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        5•1 year ago

        Was that the one you could use to set callback alarms as well?

        • @discozombie@lemmy.world
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          6•1 year ago

          Nah that was just the talking clock. The wake up/reminder service was a ‘premium’ service accessible via 1234.

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      TIL

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      1•1 year ago

      POP-CORN

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