10 Aug
2022
10 Aug
'22
4:27 a.m.
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.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 9, 2022, at 8:06 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@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.