Ethernet should have lost. It was a chaotic free-for-all where machines shouted over a shared cable and backed off when they collided, competing against orderly, corporate-backed token schemes that guaranteed fairness. It won anyway. This is the story of how a memo at Xerox PARC, a radio network in Hawaii, and a standards-committee brawl produced the wire in every wall.
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The Story of Ethernet: How a Shared Wire Won the Network