Ethernet

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.