> Ironically, wireless networks are still very much like the original "you've got a piece of wire and everyone yells into it after listening for a short period

> Ironically, wireless networks are still very much like the original "you've got a piece of wire and everyone yells into it after listening for a short period of time" mechanism. Maybe not that ironically since Ethernet derives from ALOHANet, the wireless network connecting Hawaiian schools. Early Ethernet was basically ALOHANet piped over a wire instead of radio waves just like cable tv for a while was just broadcast TV over wires instead of radio waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet