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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 07:20 PM EDT |
The wires are twisted around a sliver of Maxwell's aether.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 08:57 AM EDT |
Which certainly describes CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision
Detecting) connections. The fact that it is so radio-like, even though
(originally) on a shared coaxial cable, makes the term perfect.
And yes, we still talk about signals travelling through the ether, or "on
the air", even though we should know better.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
Actually, that word was intentionally chosen by Bob Metcalfe. According to
"Ethernet The Definitive Guide", by Charles Spurgeon: 'He chose to
base the name on the work "ether" as a way of describing an essential
feature of the system: the physical medium (i.e., a cable) carries bits to all
stations, much the same way that the old "luminiferous ether" was once
thought to propagate electromagnetic waves through space. Thus Ethernet was
born.'
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