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I think about this every single time I read or hear the word ether. "It means an invisible transfer medium. What were they thinking!?"
by dhc02 3y ago
I think about this every single time I read or hear the word ether. "It means an invisible transfer medium. What were they thinking!?"
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoThat's Aether.
- dwighttk 3y agoSynonyms
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoSo it is, I didn't know that. In that case the other poster point stands, I'm guessing they used the word to indicate the magic of the network?
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- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago...So calling wifi Aethernet would be hilarious, but I think we can maybe agree that would not have been a great idea for the sake of actually being able to talk about them out loud.
- vore 3y agoTell that to the person who said "trie" should be pronounced "tree"!
- tokai 3y agoThey were thinking that they were making a new medium to propagate a signal. Wifi is not a medium but a protocol.
- flashback2199 3y agoThe name actually makes some sense from the low level system programmer's perspective on the original Ethernet where you flung packets blindly into a single coax cable that snaked around to each workstation.