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30 Years of Ethernet
Babylon Rocker writes "An interview with one of the inventors of Ethernet." Metcalfe talks about the history of Ethernet as well as what he's been up to for the last couple years. (Not surprisingly, he's now a VC ;)
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Does anyone have BitTorrent for the past 30 years of the internet? I really need it. Thanks!
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Happy Birthday Ethernet!! Hurray for Ethernet! May it live long and prosper, and my bandwidth never end.
VP=venture capitalist
Wow, it's been 30 years already, and i *still* haven't managed to get my mitts on a set of RJ45 crimpers...
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Apparently the old adage "A fool and his money are soon venture capital" does not apply here :-)
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VietCong
Tell that to Larry Ellison.
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He joined the Vietcong? That's pretty suprising!
Well they do say vietnam is a beautiful country now that American invaders aren't trying ton bomb into the stone age and kill everyone who doesn't dig bigmacs...
Don't you know ? The Internet invented Al Gore.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Ventriloquist Cheater
What, no gratuitous Al Gore comments? ;)
"Stallman and Torvalds would have us return to the time when software was so new that one person working alone could change the world over the weekend. But modern software, [...] is more complicated than that."
Should be ignored at all cost.
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on.
"The technology is 30 years old...who'd want to use it?"
Wasn't that one of Microsoft's arguments against Linux at one time?
And, I *KNEW* I was a geek when this kept me laughing for 30+ minutes...laughing so hard I had tears rolling down my eyes and my sides hurt:
Ethernet: A device used to catch the Ether-bunny.
{snerk...hahahahaha}
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"they flip the collective finger at Bill Gates, the software Romanoff whom they'd like to trap in a basement somewhere."
Surely Romanoff was not THAT BAD.
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No kidding. This is one of my favorites, in which he predicts the death of flat-rate pricing for Internet access. Which would, of course, mean the end of popular interest in the Internet. "The information's on your web site? That's nice, but I pay by the kilobit. Mail me a copy, please. Thank you."
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is CSMA/CD . What a brilliant MAC. You just start shouting, check to see if anyone else was shouting, and if they were, wait a random amount of time and start shouting again. It's so simple and stupid that no one would ever think it works.
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Al Gore says all kinds of stupid things all the time...but he still invented the internet!!!
(ducks & lowcrawls for cover)