Ethernet
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The LAN technology sketched at Xerox PARC in 1973 that won every networking war and now carries almost everything.
Robert Metcalfe circulated the founding memo on May 22, 1973, with David Boggs building the first 2.94 Mbit/s coax network; the ALOHA-inspired CSMA/CD let stations share a wire by colliding politely. Standardized through DIX (1980) and IEEE 802.3 (1983), it out-priced and out-iterated Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM, shedding the shared wire itself for switches along the way. From ten megabits to 800 gigabits, the frame format survives; the name now means the winner.
Also known as: IEEE 802.3, CSMA/CD