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Robert Metcalf Invents Ethernet

1975
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In 1975 Robert Metcalfe of Xerox PARC invented Ethernet. Initially the speed of Ethernet was three megabits per second. Ethernet evolved "into the most widely implemented physical and link layer protocol."

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