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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time

An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running?

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time

"In 1977, David Mills, an eccentric engineer and computer scientist,
took a job at COMSAT, a satellite corporation headquartered in
Washington, D.C. Mills was an inveterate tinkerer: he'd once built a
hearing aid for a girlfriend's uncle, and had consulted for Ford on how paper-tape computers might be put into cars. Now, at COMSAT, Mills
became involved in the ARPANET, the computer network that would become
the precursor to the Internet. A handful of researchers were already
using the network to connect their distant computers and trade
information. But the fidelity of that exchanged data was threatened by a distinct deficiency: the machines did not share a single, reliable
synchronized time."

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