Ethernet Turns 40 159
alancronin writes "Four decades ago the Ethernet protocol made its debut as a way to connect machines in close proximity, today it is the networking layer two protocol of choice for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and everything in between. For many people Ethernet is merely the RJ45 jack on the back of a laptop, but its relative ubiquity and simplicity belie what Ethernet has done for the networking industry and in turn for consumers and enterprises. Ethernet has in the space of 40 years gone from a technology that many in the industry viewed as something not fit for high bandwidth, dependable communications to the default data link protocol."
Token ring ... (Score:5, Funny)
LANPARTY! (Score:4, Funny)
You damm kids. (Score:5, Funny)
Get off my lan.
Yeah, it drinks pretty heavily now (Score:5, Funny)
Ethernet's fiber-optic wife left him for Wifi. His kids call the new guy daddy. The child support leaves him living in a run down shithole where he can barely even do 10 Mbps. Life just wasn't what he'd hoped it would be.
Re:Token ring ... (Score:5, Funny)
ATM is the future of networking.
Re:You damm kids. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Most people would be wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
You use KiB instead of KB, don't you?
Re:Token ring ... (Score:4, Funny)
Really the only problem with token ring was that you'd occasionally lose the token and have to stop work and try to hunt it down.
Re:Token ring ... (Score:4, Funny)
Pity. Token ring gets even more interesting when there's a second computer to talk to :)
Re:Token ring ... (Score:4, Funny)
I can't tell if you're being funny or deserve to be beaten with a stick.