The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

I should not have fanned the flames by joking about the Open Sores initiative. The board of directors chose Eric Benhamou to run the networking company Metcalfe had founded in his Palo Alto apartment in 1979. degrees one in Electrical Engineering and the other in Industrial Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Robert Melancton "Bob" Metcalfe (born April 7 1946 in Brooklyn New York) is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law. As of January 2006[update] he is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners.