Happy Birthday Ethernet!

Claymoore

On this day in 1973, Robert Metcalfe circulated a memo outlining a rough schematic of how Ethernet should work. Metcalfe was working at XEROX PARC at the time, but he later went on to found 3Com.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Metcalfe

Tyrant1919

If Ethernet had one wish, what would it be?

hypnotoad

Ethernet wishes that as ubiquitous as it is, it wasn't brought to its knees by a loop or a bad vtp update...

it requires some careful configuration to work right, but when it works right it is great.

In other words, it's kind of like Windows.

JDMurray

I miss reading Bob's column in InfoWorld.