[ih] "This is the History of Ethernet."

[Jared E. Richo]

(To be clear, this was not my blog. Just sharing it given the list 
audience!)

On 8/21/2024 9:23 AM, Bob Purvy wrote:
> So much work! Congratulations. You know that Bob Metcalfe is online, right?
> 
> I wrote a historical novel: https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the- 
> future <https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future>
> 
> that tries to recreate what our reaction to the Ethernet was, back then. 
> Obviously not everyone was a fan. I also have a whole chapter on the 
> great lightning strike of 1978 that took down the Xerox Ethernet. Even 
> though I was there at the time, I had no memory of it, so I had to rely 
> on research to find out what happened.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 8:05 AM Jared E. Richo via Internet-history 
> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet- 
> history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     https://x.com/danieldibswe/status/1826137555605049601 <https://
>     x.com/danieldibswe/status/1826137555605049601>
> 
>     This is the most research I've done for a blog post. Ever. It's taken
>     months, reviewing hundreds of papers, standards, RFCs, interviews, etc.
>     I was lucky to get to talk to some people from the original P802.
> 
>     This is the History of Ethernet.
> 
> 
>     https://lostintransit.se/2024/08/21/ethernet-history-deepdive-why-
>     do-we-have-different-frame-types/ <https://
>     lostintransit.se/2024/08/21/ethernet-history-deepdive-why-do-we-
>     have-different-frame-types/>
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