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Since I had to Google it, 3Com was the company behind Ethernet, a wired networking standard that revolutionized offices in the days before remote work. Like wit
by tessierashpool 1y ago
Since I had to Google it, 3Com was the company behind Ethernet, a wired networking standard that revolutionized offices in the days before remote work. Like with GUIs, the work started at Xerox PARC.
- riffic 1y agoEthernet was developed at Xerox PARC and was inspired by ALOHAnet. Metcalfe was however a co-founder at 3Com.
- tessierashpool 1y agoSince I had to google it, Metcalfe was one of the inventors of Ethernet. Fun fact, he predicted in 1995 that the internet would collapse entirely within the following year, and said he would eat his words if it didn't. In 1997, at a web conference, he put a printed copy of the words into a blender and drank a smoothie made with that paper.