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YODA
01-Jun-2003, 10:23 PM
This month in 1973 data was passed over a computer networking technology known as ethernet for the first time.

The feat was accomplished by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs who at the time were researchers at the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Three decades on and ethernet is used to connect millions of computers together and to link those machines to the internet.

Happy Birthday to the NET :p:D:p:D

r4bid
01-Jun-2003, 10:35 PM
is this actually the birthday of the net or of ethernet technologies? I am pretty sure the first actual internet transfers were over phonelines not ethernite rj45 esque stuff.