Outside of his technical achievements, Metcalfe is perhaps best known for his 1995 prediction that the internet would suffer a catastrophic collapse the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not. During his key note speech at the Sixth WWW International Conference in 1997, he took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass.[8] [9] This was after he tried to eat his words in the form of a very large cake, but the audience strongly protested; the cake was quite good[citation needed] and was eaten by some of the audience after the speech.
source. Well that's quite a commitment!
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