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Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.
Pattern Breakers
What Was the Breakthrough Idea With Packet Switching?
E packet is a bundle of bits with a destination address on the front. The big invention was emal really, so that there was hardly any email. So collaboration among researchers got ramped up because we could talk to each other through emal. But this arpana thing, once it got connected, it was easy to write a few email clients and start sending emals around.
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