How My Training As An Inventioneer Altered Ethernet
Everyone said it was impossible. Engineers laughed and called it ‘The Billings Folly’ — as a joke. Then the entire internet adopted it, and now the whole world uses it.
Dr. Roger Billings tells the inside story of how full duplex gigabit Ethernet was invented, rejected at IEEE standards meetings, and eventually became the global standard behind modern internet, streaming video, and AI.
Discover the inventions that made it possible — the concentrator, the equalizer circuit, and the balanced hybrid circuit — and hear what happened when Ron Crane, the father of Ethernet himself, stepped in to defend it.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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You are so cool DrB😎
I was amazed that researchers in Sweden were able one put one injection in kids ears that have hering deficiency and within a few months can hear with positive results. That is amazing I want to read more about that!
Hello from NC
Amazing live tonight.
Hello I learn a lot from this
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Hello and good morning from Japan!
Science live was great!
Really enjoy watching science live!
I’m reily in to chips now😸😁🤠
love hearing this!
My family talked this week about the first Hydrogen car and discussed where we think Hydrogen power will go in the future!
Hello! The circuit board prototype was so cool!
Good evening from New York!
good thing dr billings didnt give up
Science live is so great!
This was very interesting.
Hey from Louisiana! This school has been working great for me lately!
it’s so cool that you were able to treat hearing loss like that! watching from IL btw 🤍
So inspiring!! I would love to invent life changing technology too!
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Hey from Texas!
I like learning about new technology
I love that you have all these ideas and you don’t give up. I also love watching science live and the lessons I learn.
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Science is cool!
I really enjoyed this life tonight.
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Loved this!!!
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Hello from Mississippi!
why is everyone changing cars what happened to when everything was cheap and not electric or made of hydrogen?
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So funny I love this video
Hello from NJ!
Back for today’s live
I’M IN NJ TOOOO
This was great!
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This is so inspiring!
I didn’t know that about you, that’s so awesome!!
Hello from Mississippi !!
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hi from az
Love hearing about Dr. Billing’s researches, inventions, and projects!
Great information. Great Episode!
I love learning on science live!
Science Live was great😃.
Hello from Kentucky👋
Very Interesting! I loved hearing your story
I enjoyed learning about the invention of WideBand and the 100 gig concentrator in todays lesson.
Hi! This is really cool!
love this
I love science Live. Thank you
I’m sure it can be solved
My favorite part was where they showed the different ways that circuits can be made for computer chips!
I love Dr billings humor
Very good broadcast!
that’s so interesting about the walkie talkie
Loved the episode. R-51 making the minions noise had me giggling like crazy! Cannot wait till next week!
Watching from IL amazing live to night!
Great Science Live.
Hello from North Carolina. great show!!
me too!
Tonights science live was really entertaining.
Watching from Nevada!
This was another good live video tonight
I love watching science lives
Wow! Thats impressive!
This video was great! Ready for next week!
I wonder what R51 is going to do today.
hi y’all i hope y’all are having a great night!!!! hi from Montana
That’s a lot of wires.
I lost count the many times he has been in engineering jobs.
Hi from New Jersey!
Thank you soo much for your contributions . That was awesome.
i wounder if I could program a mother board to
one of my favorites
hi from Ohio!
Why would people ever want to make fun of someone?
It’s cool being able to hear people’s stories about their ideas coming to life.
I think that it was very interesting to learn about the collision problem .
That was cool.
I love this live it’s lovely 😍 👌 👍 🥰 ☺️ 😙 😍 👌 👍
Do you think there will be another revolutionary energy invention that fundamentally changes our living environments, just as electricity did?
I’m very thankful to attend Acellus.
Pretty cool boots Lady Pajet!
Great episode this evening.
hello from Texas:]
ethernet is crazy cool!
science is the best
Ethernet is so cool!
hi from Texas
Hello from New Orleans
I love learning about proteges!
That’s really cool!
I really enjoyed this, very interesting!
When was the Biling’s version of the computer on sale?
Did the IEEE finally come to a agreement at the end of the meeting with every vote?
Hiiiiii from tx!!
i love aceilus
my dad wears Steel-Toe Boots
I love this live, so inspiring.
This is my last science life please make it a good 1. I just wanted to thank you all for what you did for me. Especially you PJ Monet You help me learn How to control my feelings and not let them control me I also want to thank you doctor billings For giving me a great opportunity to learn more than I was learning and I want to thank you Caleb for Letting me out of my comfort zone and trying new things and creating new songs and making it feel like I wasn’t the only person who was obsessed with singing and playing guitar and everything like that. I’m going to miss you all very very much Goodbye to everyone Forever Till my kid try science life and trys Acellus Thank you so much for this opportunity bye😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭☺️☺️☺️☺️
Great live! Thank you Mr Billings for your contributions
good live tonight!!
I love that science can improve so many things it really is a wonderful thing it be able to do.
That’s so cool!
Hello from Nevada
ethernet sounds really interesting!
todays live was the best i learned so much
it’s interesting how life experiences inspire inventions!
Wow! This is very informstional.
Hi from Tennessee
Hey from Ohio, tonight’s live was so cool I loved how you taught us about proteges !
hey from texas
Science live is sooooo cool
How hard is it to make a motherboard?
Even after literally getting laughed at, you still pulled through and changed the world of technology and the internet forever!
oh wow she invented those boots
Watching this from USA!!!!
the fact that they kept telling you that your board would not work so many times and you proved them wrong over and over again i find very funny and that you stayed strong is very inspiring.
from nd so excited
Hi from tn
I loved learning about Dr. Billings inventions
I like madelins question
Science is very cool!
It’s always so cool to hear how much Dr. B has influenced modern technology! ^^
it’s nice to learn a lot about the history of ethernet!
Thank you for another amazing science live.
Hi from Georgia!
My mom tells me to think about creating and inventing things in a manner that she doesn’t have to return it for not working as advertised.
ethernet is very cool! i use it to play my games
Thanks Dr B for your contributions to technology.
How old were you when you made your invention DrB
Keystone so amazing WOW !!!!
I love thisssss
Actually amazing!
Hello from Arkansas
It’s nice to see science live as a livestream again! I love how Dr. Billings’ inventions helped the world expand in technology.
hey Tyler, I love science
Hi from GA Mr.B is aswome
Hello from Texas!
the fact that they kept telling you that your board would not work so many times and you proved them wrong over and over again i find very funny and that you stayed strong is very inspiring.
hi from georgia and i have a ethernet cord on my pc.
I love watching these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All this internet stuff recently is super interesting
Such a good episode see you all next week.
hey for sc
ethernet is amazing
Thank you for teaching me everything in this video!
I love learning about ethernet.
Hi guys I love science live day!!
the ethernet is crazy, wow
Amazing discovery of Dr. billings, such an incredible engineer,appreciate what we now use and how it all started
Thanks for science live, I really appreciate it!
Very informational live this week! Hi from Memphis!
I love science live
Im glad you helped with ethernet
What is the most data that can be sent over copper wire?
Hello from Texas!!
It’s always great to learn about Dr. Billings’ contributions to amazing inventions.
Another amazing and interesting science live.
I think that being able to cure being deaf is a huge step in science and medicine it truly is impressive.
it sounds cool even know learned it
I love the subject Science, especially because I want to be a Nurse one day so these videos are very helpful.
Thank you, Jeanelle.Parks
From TN but in TX!!!
Hello this video was very informative thanks.
Hello from Virginia!
Kinda crazy how in such a short amount of time, we’ve gone from gigabits being revolutionary, to being weak sauce compared to what we have nowadays.
I loved this week’s video!
Hi from ATL I like the good billings hydrogen car it’s awsome and the DR.ROGER Billings son named Caleb and grandson named David I like science live 🫡
Hello, Brenden here, from Illinois.
I love science live🦠🧠🫀🫁🩸 love how much I learned from this!😁🔥
Comment The byte, the mega byte, the gigantic byte, and now the Tara byte, we have really made some good advancements…
Hello from Sugar Land, TX
Love learning about Dr Billings inventions!
Hello from texas!
hello, just got back from doing stuff, glad that I made it in time.
awesome how electricity works
Thank you Dr. billing!
I did not know how fast internet could be with a terabit.🦖🫶
That’s amazing that they were able to use a older computer to connect to the newer technology now. It’s brilliant!
I love science live!!
I always learn something new with this
I am sad to have missed this live, but happy I can still get to watch it.