[LINK] Geoff Huston: "Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet"

[Stephen Loosley]

Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet

By Geoff Huston  29th Jun 2023

imho, an outstanding document:

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/06/29/happy-50th-birthday-ethernet


Some 50 years ago, at the Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) of renowned photocopier company Xerox, a revolutionary approach to local digital networks was born.

On 22 May 1973, Bob Metcalf authored a memo that described ‘X-Wire’, a 3Mbps common bus office network system.

There are very few networking technologies from the early 70s that have proven to be so resilient (TCP/IP is the only other major networking technology from that era that I can recall), so it’s worth looking at Ethernet a little closer in order to see why it has enjoyed such an unusual longevity ...