ROTFL! Yes, every time I’ve run into Bob at a conference he always introduces himself this way: “I’m Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet.”
-mel > On Aug 9, 2022, at 9:20 PM, Fred Baker <fredbaker.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Aug 9, 2022, at 8:06 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: >> >> Robert Metcalfe, InfoWorld columnist and the inventor of Ethernet, also in >> 1995: >> “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 >> catastrophically collapse.” > > In 1998 I invited Mr Metcalfe to address the IETF on the collapse of the > Internet, which he renewed his prediction of. He declined.
