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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 60 min. ago

Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905

https://lockergnome.com/ethernet-named-after-luminiferous-ether-physicists-disproved/

#ethernet #networking #XeroxParc #retro

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Ethernet Is Named After the Luminiferous Ether, an Invisible Medium Einstein Called Superfluous in 1905

Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs's 1976 paper says Ethernet is named for the luminiferous ether that light was 'once alleged' to travel through, a medium Michelson and Morley failed to detect in 1887 and Einstein's relativity paper set aside in 1905.

#xeroxparc #networking #ethernet #retro

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