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In 1997, a man on a giant stage ripped an article from a magazine

shoved it into a blender, put some clear liquid in it, hit

blend, and then drank the cloudy, pulpy substance.

The occasion was the sixth international worldwide web

conference.

The man was, that year's keynote speaker, Robert Medcalfe.

In the 1970s, Medcalfe invented Ethernet, founded 3COM.

He helped create the internet.

So why was he chugging mulch in front of an audience?

Because two years earlier, he wrote a column in which

included the sentence, I predict, the internet will soon

go spurtaculately supernova and in 1996, catastrophically

collapse.

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