Sunday, May 23, 2010

Ethernet LAN

The first Ethernet LAN data packet is transmitted at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center on May 23, 1973. Bob Metcalf and David Boggs are the inventors of the networking technology that will eventually be used on the vast majority of local area networks in the world. For three years they work to refine and improve their invention. By 1976, their experimental network is connecting 100 devices.
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