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Happy 35th Birthday Ethernet

May 22, 1973: Enter Ethernet
1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a memo outlining how to connect the think tank’s new personal computers to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of — and names — ethernet.

Looking at his diagram, he had the foresight to see networking not [...]