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Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-the-grade dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in with a Network World story that opens, "Ethernet is right up there with magnetic resonance imaging, the LP record, air bags, and soft contact lenses. So says the National Inventors Hall of Fame, which included Bob Metcalfe, inventor of the ubiquitous LAN technology, in its latest round of inductees."

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  1. lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    insert ASCII goatse here

  2. Re:Kinda spoilt... by WS+Tu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyway, it is an article in 1999. IMHO, I like this story more... Metcalf ate his column http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/m sg00192.html

  3. Re:Kinda spoilt... by autophile · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's got an agenda that gives him the same sort of tunnel vision and myopia that the worst fawning Apple fanboy, snotty Microsoft apologist, or strident BSD partisan has.

    This is slashdot. You left out "...or Linux highly reasonable and well-shaven proponent."

    --Rob

    --
    Towards the Singularity.
  4. Re:The original Hall of Fame, and hubris... by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ozymandias, anyone?

    Look upon my works, ye mighty, and...hey, hey COME BACK!
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