Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years::The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide

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Ethernet is gonna be, if its not already, one of those lifetime IEC standards that everyone has to support similar to how there are 20 different power plug standards, and someday USB will replace those. Boy, Ethernet over USB. That’ll be the day…

250 years from now they’ll be running Cat6 in mega-spaceships because it works, and the error-correction will be good enough for cosmic ray noise.

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