Want To Feel Old? Ethernet Just Celebrated Its 50th Birthday
The Register, Monday, July 3,2023
The original bus network continues to run rings around all its rivals
Everything goes round in cycles, including computer networking. but not always in rings. The most important networking system so far has vanquished all its loopy rivals for 50 years.
Geoff Huston, the chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), posted a rather splendid potted history of Ethernet yesterday to commemorate its 50th birthday.