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Ethernet

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Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking standards used for local area, campus and metropolitan area networks, first standardized as ECMA-82 in 1983 and shortly after as IEEE 802.3, and commercially introduced in 1980. Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs developed the technology at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, adapting the radio-based ALOHAnet protocol to run over a shared coaxial cable; a May 22, 1973 internal memo formally named the system, and the first experimental Ethernet network ran on November 11, 1973 at a bit rate of 2.94 megabits per second. Ethernet went on to become the dominant wired local area networking standard, still developed today as an open standard shared across the computing industry.

Facts
Year
1973 1
Significance
Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs built the first Ethernet network at Xerox PARC in 1973 to link Alto computers to a shared laser printer, and by 1976 it connected 100 machines, becoming the dominant local area networking standard. 1
Sources
1. Ethernet (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section, first run sentence
    It first ran on November 11, 1973 with a bit rate of 2.94 Mbit/s.
  • History section, 1976 Alto count sentence
    By 1976, 100 Altos at Xerox PARC were connected using Ethernet.
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