do you ever wonder why the heck Ethernet is called Ethernet obviously it's
related to network but Ethernet might sound a bit too similar to internet
which might be why internet port connector comes up as a suggested search
on Google despite the words having completely different Origins let's take
a look at where Ethernet and some other common Tech terms really came from even
though Ethernet made its debut in 1980
the answer to this question actually goes all the way back to the 1600s back
then scientists believed it was impossible for light to travel through a
vacuum so they theorized that outer space was actually full of some sort of
substance that they dubbed luminiferous ether but what does this have to do with
Ethernet well although the theory of special relativity showed that light
could indeed move through a vacuum in the early 20th century one of the
inventors of the Ethernet protocol thought The non-existent luminiferous
Ether was a good concept to name the new standard after since he envisioned data
cables running all throughout the headquarters of Xerox Park and like The
hypothesized Ether Ethernet would be a passive signal transmitting solution
that would be present everywhere turns out he was right as Ethernet cables
don't require active circuitry to function and are common as dirt but
perhaps Wi-Fi is the better comparison to The Ether these days slightly less
luminiferous let's move on and now look at a popular brand name Pentium Intel is
currently phasing out Pentium but these processors were so common in the 1990s
that it almost became synonimous with good CPU for mainstream consumers even
if that wasn't always the case if Pentium kind of sounds like a chemical
element that was indeed the idea prior to the Pentium Intel's mainstream PC
CPUs were all typically known by numbers ending in 86 starting with the original
8086 processor then continuing through the 486 released in 1989 naturally you
might think they'd go with 586 for the Next Generation but by this point the
competition between Intel and AMD had become quite serious and AMD was
labeling its processors with the same numbers unsurprising considering AMD
actually got their start by being a Second Source chip supplier for Intel
this meant that Intel needed a brand name that was distinct to set their
chips apart and beyond that they actually lost a court battle in 1991
when they tried to trademark 386 because model numbers are often considered too
legally generic to get trademark protection so Intel hired a marketing
firm to come up with a name and they specifically requested a name that
sounded like an important ingredient that would enhance the PC experience the
marketing firm thought of sodium since it's an ingredient that enhances the
flavor of food and started writing down possible names that ended in ium since
that's kind of sounds like some kind of chemical ingredient I don't know Pentium
was one of those names and since pent means five it seemed like a natural name
for a processor that otherwise would have been called 586 you see how that
okay by the time the late 1990s rolled around the same marketing firm actually
found that Pentium was even more recognized than Intel which by the way
stands for integrated Electronics as the original name of the company more noise
sounded too much like more noise next
let's talk about a tech origin story that's so widely accepted most people
don't even realize it's not quite accurate we'll do that right after we
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enduring term for any kind of problem real or perceived with anything
electronic a popularly accepted atmology comes from Grace Hopper a computer
scientist who actually served as a rear Admiral in the US Navy The Story Goes
that while she was working on a massive 23 ton computer at Harvard in the mid1
1940s the system encountered an error that was ultimately discovered to have
been caused by a moth that got trapped inside the dead Critter was then taped
into a paper log book with the words first actual case of bug being found
although the story helped to popularize the term bug it wasn't the first use of
bug to mean technical problem as some folks believe Hopper herself confirmed
that bug was already being used during World War II to describe frustrations
with radar systems prior to that the word bug appeared in writing during the
1800s to describe any sort of equipment problem so it's unclear if a single
person coined the term it's more likely this definition of bug originated from a
much older use of the word to mean something scary this usage dated back to
at least the time of Shakespeare with an anemology that possibly goes all the way
back to a stone age word for to puff up
you know like a big scary monster or a fish and there's nothing more
frightening than a bug that bricks your expensive graphics card so maybe the
caveman were on to something and I think you were on to something watching this
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