Robert Metcalfe devised the Ethernet method of network connection at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He wrote: "On May 22, 1973, using my Selectric typewriter. I wrote "Ether Acquisition" heavy with handwritten annotations one of which was "ETHER" and with hand- drawn diagrams one of which showed boosters interconnecting branched cable, telephone, and ratio ethers in what we now call an internet. If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day, this was it". |
