Inventing Ethernet
Augmenting people-to-people communications
Today in 1973, “arriving at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center on May 22, 1973,” wrote Bob Metcalfe in Internet Collapses, “I turned on my IBM Selectric, pulled out a wad of Ko-Rec-Type, snapped on an Orator ball, and banged out the memo inventing Ethernet.”
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