David Boggs, who co-invented Ethernet along with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, died on February 19 at 71 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times:
David Boggs, who co-invented Ethernet along with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC, died on February 19 at 71  —  Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot.