Ethernet arose from Aloha Net http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=InTech&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=55888 http://www.is

Ethernet arose from Aloha Net http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=InTech&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=55888 http://www.isa.org/InTechTemplate.cfm?Section=InTech&templat... From the article: During the 1970s, a Harvard graduate student named Robert Metcalfe read a paper about something called Aloha Net. It was a radio system used in the Hawaiian Islands to send small messages, also called data packets, between islands. ... The packet communications network he designed became the worldwide standard we know today as Ethernet.