A legend in his own time — Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. Enlarge / A photo of David L. Mills taken by Raul654 on April 27, 2005. On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post on the Internet Society mailing list after Cerf was informed of David's death by Mills' daughter, Leigh. "He w...