40 years of Ethernet

Robert Metcalfe

As the wiki says:

"It is generally accepted that Ethernet was invented on May 22, 1973, when Robert Metcalfe wrote a memorandum to the head of PARC on the potential of Ethernet technology."
')
I don’t know how reliable it is, but they also write that “the academic council of the university, when it first met Metcalfe, rejected it as“ insufficiently analytical, ”but later, after the author included several equations in the manuscript, the dissertation was nevertheless accepted. "

Well, it is quite possible and reminds (as legend says) that in a similar situation with the first IBM PC, the creator fathers answered the question: “And what can a simple housewife do with this?” Answered something in the spirit: “Keep culinary recipes, for example ".