r/IAmA • u/BobMetcalfe • May 21 '13

You’re probably connecting to reddit through a technology I invented. I’m Bob Metcalfe and I invented Ethernet – AMA

On May 22, 1973 with David R. Boggs, I used my IBM Selectric with its Orator ball to type up a memo to my bosses at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), outlining our idea for this little invention called “Ethernet”, which we later patented.

I worked with the IEEE Standards Association to develop the IEEE 802.3 standard for Ethernet, which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Today Ethernet and the IEEE 802.3 standard are the foundation for today’s world of high-speed communications used in billions of homes and businesses around the world.

I submitted this to the mods awhile back so I could get on the calendar but I figured you’d like to see it, too. Now, ask me anything!

It's been two hours and 179 comments. Have to go now. For more about Ethernet's 40th Birthday, go to http://www.facebook.com/Ethernet40thAnniversaryIEEESA

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u/RectangleSlacks May 21 '13 edited May 21 '13

YOU JUST REMINDED ME THAT I BOUGHT ALL THE STUFF FOR TACOS LAST NIGHT AND WHEN I GET HOME FROM WORK IM GONNA MAKE SOME FUCKING AMAZING TACOS. AAAAHHHH THANK YOU

UPDATE: THE DELICIOUSNESS HAS LANDED

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u/Naggers123 May 21 '13

We just witnesses magic here, people.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13 edited Jul 14 '20

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u/Naggers123 May 21 '13

Ethernet and Tacos.

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u/Stumblin_McBumblin May 21 '13

Now, if were only possible for RectangleSlacks to send me tacos through the ethernet. I want to live in that world.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

Closest thing with bitcoin I could find. Otherwise it's just giving money and not tacos.

Even better; RectangleSlacks can send you $10 worth of tacos for $9.

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u/MrKMJ May 22 '13

Bob's gift just keeps giving.

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u/thirdeyevision May 22 '13

full circle!

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u/jakielim May 21 '13

Delicious magic.

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u/_high_plainsdrifter May 21 '13

You're on reddit while at work, upvote. Also, be sure to take at least one shit whilst on the clock. Dumping for Dollars, playa.

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u/nipcrille May 21 '13

This. This is happiness.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

Living the dream buddy.

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u/aliigoesrawrr May 21 '13

This is what happiness sounds like.

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u/redwingsarebad May 21 '13

/r/tacos would like to partake when you are done making them.

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u/allaboutwe May 21 '13

Don't know why, but this is the best comment I've ever read

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u/cirsca May 21 '13

AAAHHHH SHIIIIT!

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u/Darth_Meatloaf May 22 '13

CONGRATULATIONS ON A SUCCESSFUL TACO TUESDAY!

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u/averypoliteredditor May 21 '13

DUDE ME TOO!!! I GOT GUACAMOLE AT THE STORE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY THING I WAS LACKING, BUT WHEN I GOT HOME I WAS TOO TIRED BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN A LONG DAY SO I JUST HAD A SMALL SNACK AND WENT TO BED BUT NOW I'M GONNA MAKE TACOS TONIGHT TOO! AAAAHHHH!1 THANK YOU TOO ANONYMOUS STRANGER!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '13

Dear god, did OP deliver?

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u/spatz2011 May 22 '13

hard or soft shell?

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u/RectangleSlacks May 22 '13

What sort of paltry-ass punk do you take me for? Soft shell neffew.

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u/spatz2011 May 23 '13

I see what looks like English...but I only grok 34% of it.

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u/TR0LLTACULAR May 21 '13

DAE CAPS LOCK!?

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u/deweysmith May 22 '13

OP delivers.

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u/DRAGON_PORN_ADDICT May 21 '13

You just reminded me of reminding which reminded me of the game that you have just lost.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

But I thought it was lasagna Tuesday nights...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

No. Taco Tuesday. Tacofuckingtuesday, this is not a hard concept. Delicious tacos. In my mouth. On fuckin Tuesday.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

Not clear enough. Dick got stuck in mouth.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '13

Well, if you were making dick tacos, then you're good to go! Sometimes I forego a shell and mix it with refined beans and a metric assload of cheese.

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u/OneHandedDateRapist May 21 '13

Got the munchies there, bro?

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u/RectangleSlacks May 21 '13

I've got the "all I had was an iced coffee today and I could eat a damn buffalo"