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Ethernet Inventor
When we start routinely jacking into The Matrix, won't the jack be Ethernet? Will it be an RJ-45 in your ear?
Do you have a sense of how important Ethernet is to the world?
If you count Wi-Fi (first called wireless Ethernet by IEEE 802). and I do, something like a billion new Ethernet ports are shipped every year. Ethernet is the Internet's plumbing. How important is the Internet? Without Ethernet we'd be stuck with the old AT&T telephone network, and you remember how slow that was.
No, I do not get $1 for every Ethernet port. I do get to tell bellhops in hotels that I invented that wire on the desk, and they say, "Sure you did."
Did you ever have an aha! moment while developing Ethernet?
Ethernet was invented on May 22, 1973. There have been many...