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Tech HistoryHistory August 27, 2026 6 min read

NTP: How David Mills Made Distributed Computers Agree on Time

How David Mills evolved Internet time synchronization from early experiments into NTP, with offset estimation, clock discipline, strata, and redundancy.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive July 12, 2026 6 min read

ARPANET's First Message: Why 'LO' Reached SRI Before the System Crashed

Reconstruct the October 29, 1969 UCLA-to-SRI login from the IMP log, and separate ARPANET's first host message from later Internet myths.

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