“The Man Who Discovered Network Effects Isn’t Sorry: Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of Ethernet, Coined the Law That Explains the Power and Pathologies of Social Platforms. He Also Just Won Computing’s Highest Honor”, Levy 2023

The Man Who Discovered Network Effects Isn’t Sorry: Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, coined the law that explains the power and pathologies of social platforms. He also just won computing’s highest honor

“How’d You Come up With Metcalfe’s Law?”, caseysoftware 2023

How’d you come up with Metcalfe’s Law?

“Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New Laws of Computing: Moore’s and Metcalfe’s Conjectures Are Taught in Classrooms Every Day—These Four Deserve Consideration, Too”, Dedeke 2022

Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New Laws of Computing: Moore’s and Metcalfe’s conjectures are taught in classrooms every day—these four deserve consideration, too

“Metcalfe’s Law As a Model for Bitcoin’s Value”, Peterson 2018

Metcalfe’s Law as a Model for Bitcoin’s Value

“Testing Metcalfe’s Law: Pitfalls and Possibilities”, Hove 2016

Testing Metcalfe’s law: Pitfalls and possibilities

“Metcalfe’s Law and Network Quality: An Extension of Zhang Et Al 2015”, Hove 2016b

Metcalfe’s Law and Network Quality: An Extension of Zhang et al 2015

“Tencent and Facebook Data Validate Metcalfe’s Law”, Zhang et al 2015

Tencent and Facebook Data Validate Metcalfe’s Law

“Metcalfe’s Law: Not so Wrong After All”, Hove 2014

Metcalfe’s law: not so wrong after all

“Empirical Validation of Metcalfe’s Law: How Internet Usage Patterns Have Changed over Time”, Madureira et al 2013

Empirical validation of Metcalfe’s law: How Internet usage patterns have changed over time

“Metcalfe’s Law After 40 Years of Ethernet”, Metcalfe 2013b

Metcalfe’s Law after 40 Years of Ethernet

“A Refutation of Metcalfe’s Law and a Better Estimate for the Value of Networks and Network Interconnections”, Odlyzko & Tilly 2005

A refutation of Metcalfe’s Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections

“A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy”, Shirky 2005

A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy

Wikipedia

1. 3Com⁠:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com

2. ALOHAnet⁠:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet

3. Beckstrom’s law⁠:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckstrom%27s_law

4. Diseconomies of scale

5. Dot-com bubble

6. Dunbar’s number

7. Ethernet⁠:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet

8. Matthew effect

9. Metcalfe’s law

10. Reed’s law⁠:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law

11. Robert Metcalfe

12. Sarnoff’s law⁠:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnoff%27s_law