You’re only able to read this because of David Boggs, who died recently at 71

David Boggs, whose Ethernet protocol has worked its way into nearly every aspect of our daily lives, died of heart failure on February 19, 2022, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 71.

Boggs was an electrical engineer working at the Xerox PARC research lab in 1973, according to his New York Times obituary, when he met another young engineer named Bob Metcalfe, who was working with the lab's Alto computer and a stretch of wire.