Another one for us computer nerds.... Ethernet has turned 50

[gothic]

I'll link straight to a brilliant essay giving a potted history of Ethernet, which includes some astonishing details.

Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet | APNIC Blog

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

blog.apnic.net

 

[Barrychuckle]

That article may as well be in Esperanto for the sense it makes to me, but it's incredible when you think technology like this was launched when some were watching the first series of Last Of The Summer Wine !!!

 

[Graham]

" chuff me, age of tut satalight & I'm still getting mangles"

 

[maltrab]

I new the younger brother of this discovery, hairnet

 

[Graham]

Never caught on, it was full of holes. Ena Sharples tried to promote it in Coronation street but it went out of fashion.

 

[Graham]

Barmpot alert!