Fidel OrozcoJul 8, 2023
Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮
Today I released my *900TH EPISODE* of the @hanselminutes tech podcast. That's an episode a week, 900 times, y'all. This week is a very special guest THE INVENTOR OF ETHERNET. Check it out, subscribe, review, + above all, please share: https://www.hanselminutes.com/900/from-ethernet-to-geothermal-energy-with-bob-metcalfe #podcast #freshtech
From Ethernet to Geothermal Energy with Bob Metcalfe

This episode of Hanselminutes is in partnership with the ACM Bytecast podcast! In this episode, we have a special guest: Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com, and recipient of the 2022 Turing Award. Bob joins us to share his insights on the history and future of computer networking, and his current work in geothermal power!

Jul 7, 2023 at 7:19pmWeb
Show threadBadscrewJul 7, 2023
@shanselman oh wow
Show threadGaryJul 7, 2023
@shanselman The memories from Networking course where the prof makes you wire ethernet ends and if it doesn't work he snipped off both ends and said try again. If you ran out of cable before success, you were really screwed for the semester You might as well make plans to repeat next year.
Show threadWinterstarJul 7, 2023
@shanselman
Congratulations Scott on 900 episodes! This is awesome! And you have a great guest! However, I was already looking forward to hear @torvalds on your show. I really hope it will happen some day.
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 7, 2023
@Winterstar @torvalds working on it
Show threadsssjorsssJul 7, 2023
@shanselman nice work. Keep it going!
Show threadDaniel InmanJul 7, 2023
@shanselman 900 bangers! 🤘
Show threadChris Huck  Jul 8, 2023

@shanselman This episode caused me to send the link to GEO to my dad, who works in the oil and gas industry. He told me they had looked at the geothermal potential of some wells they drilled here in the Appalachian Basin. He said he might have to reach out to them. 😃

I love how you find people doing new things in unexpected ways. Congratulations on 900 episodes!

Show threadJason WoodwardJul 8, 2023
@shanselman I remember unfollowing him on twitter in the early or mid 2010s for being a raging right winger. Hope he’s reformed.
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 8, 2023
@woodwardjd I didn’t get that impression from our hour+ chat. He’s working on renewable energy and appreciated my diverse show’s guest roster. Perhaps you’re thinking of Uncle Bob?
Show threadJason WoodwardJul 8, 2023
@shanselman that’s great to hear. Definitely not thinking of Uncle Bob - I’ve never been much interested in what he’s had to say, so never followed. Pretty confident it was Metcalfe. To be fair it was prior to, well, the “right wing nuttery” of the past 8-10 years, so maybe it was more “classic right wing” which I still wasn’t interested in back then.
Show threadJason WoodwardJul 8, 2023

@shanselman this morning I dug through my twitter archive export, and then the wayback machine. Look at pre-jan 2011 (after which twitter's frontend JS makes it harder to read the archived pages). Unfortunately Bob started a new twitter account (RobertMMetcalfe; with the original BobMetcalfe now being squatted), so it's harder to poke through the real site.

It's hardly damning, but there are some hints at what I remember in [ https://web.archive.org/web/20101210054511/https://twitter.com/BobMetcalfe ], in particular tax policy commentary.

Bob Metcalfe (BobMetcalfe) on Twitter

MIT engineer, Harvard mathematician, Xerox scientist, Ethernet inventor, Stanford professor, 3Com founder, InfoWorld pundit, Polaris partner, Texas professor.

Show threadJason WoodwardJul 8, 2023

@shanselman one might also guess the vibe based on his follows listed on the right.

Anyway, despite being generally skeptical, I still think people can change, and if he's using his influence in positive ways these days, that's wonderful news. At the very least this thread has prompted me to give this episode a listen on my next run!

Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 8, 2023
@woodwardjd he identifies as libertarian and talks about it here https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=342328
Show threadJason WoodwardJul 8, 2023
@shanselman maybe that was the "code smell" I detected back then, and mislabeled!
Show threadoli_jensJul 8, 2023
@shanselman congratulations ! Is yours the longest running podcast out there?
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 8, 2023
@oli_jens good question. Not sure but 17 years
Show threadmbrdevJul 8, 2023
@shanselman love your podcast, always something interesting to find! Thank you for all the hard work over the years!
Show threadJohn MinnihanJul 8, 2023
@shanselman you started the podcast when you were six
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Jul 9, 2023
@jbminn lol 33