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World's first Ethernet cable -- Boing Boing Gadgets
Boing Boing —
... he said, and would run within a local area network. He called the system an Ether Network, or Ethernet. By 1976, there were over 100 devices linked into Metcalfe's local network, and it was even used to test out the world's first laser printer, which was being developed concurrently in another research facility within Xerox. Metcalfe and his assistant David Boggs published their findings in the Association for Computing Machinery later that year. The rest is history.
Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable
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Boing Boing —
... to the Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, the amazing research facility responsible for hundreds of patents and myriad innovations in technology. Steven and Lisa visited the facility in May and got a behind-the-scenes look at several of their newest innovations. As a result, we have:
* pictures and diagrams of the first Ethernet cable in the world;
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The Original Ethernet Cable and Cable Diagrams [Retromodo]
Gizmodo —
BoingBoing Gadgets found this photo of the original original Ethernet cable at Xerox PARC, devised by Bob Metcalfe so he could rig up a local system for sharing things digitally. The diagram below illustrates part of what he tried to set up. What it doesn't show, unfortunately, is how slow the network would have been compared to the average home network now. In your face, Bob. [BBG]
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Cosas que quizá no sabías: El primer cable ethernet
Gizmología —
... creando una red local, a lo que llamó Ether Network o Ethernet, como se lo conoce ahora. En 1976 habían más de 100 dispositivos enlazados a la red local y fue usado, inclusive, para probar la primera impresora láser.
Como es usual, se puede aprender mucho más leyendo en Wikipedia su artículo dedicado, también interesante este artículo en Textos Científicos e incluso existe una entrevista a Robert Metcalfe.
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The first ethernet cable
MAKE Magazine —
... and would run within a local area network. He called the system an Ether Network, or Ethernet. By 1976, there were over 100 devices linked into Metcalfe's local network, and it was even used to test out the world's first laser printer, which was being developed concurrently in another research facility within Xerox. Metcalfe and his assistant David Boggs published their findings in the Association for Computing Machinery later that year. The rest is history.
Photo and original diagram of the world's first ethernet cable
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The Network Before the Internet [Network]
Gizmodo —
The network started to breathe in the 70's. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC's labs by Boing Boing Gadgets. Dag Spicer, numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: John Shoch and Jon Hupp at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center discovered the computer "worm," a short program that searches a network for idle processors. Initially designed to provide more efficient use of computers and for testing, the worm had the unintended effect of invading networked computers, creating a security threat. Shoch took the ...
