{"id":35165,"date":"2022-03-03T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35165"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:29:47","slug":"david-boggs-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/david-boggs-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"David Boggs, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/28\/technology\/david-boggs-dead.html\">Cade Metz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/28\/technology\/david-boggs-dead.html\">\n<p>After saving up for a radio operator&rsquo;s license, David began building ham radios, spending his nights chatting with other operators across the country. His brother remembered the two of them stringing antennas from a second-floor bedroom to the roof over the garage.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At PARC, as Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Boggs pieced together a blueprint for Ethernet technology, borrowing ideas from a wireless network at the University of Hawaii called ALOHAnet.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s, Mr. Metcalfe said, when Mr. Boggs took the stage at a California computing conference, at the San Jose Convention Center, to discuss the future of networking, a rival technologist questioned the mathematical theory behind Ethernet, telling Mr. Boggs that it would never work with large numbers of machines.<\/p>\n<p>His response was unequivocal. &ldquo;Seems Ethernet does not work in theory,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;only in practice.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Metz: After saving up for a radio operator&rsquo;s license, David began building ham radios, spending his nights chatting with other operators across the country. His brother remembered the two of them stringing antennas from a second-floor bedroom to the roof over the garage. [&#8230;] At PARC, as Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Boggs pieced together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-03T20:29:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"1da3d721-d0b0-42c2-b2c5-064f6fce7cfe","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-03T20:29:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AHaPXIdCwQsKyxQZPb858_g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[762,295,476,208,531],"class_list":["post-35165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-history","tag-networking","tag-rip","tag-xerox"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35166,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35165\/revisions\/35166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}