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do you ever wonder why the heck Ethernet is called Ethernet obviously it's

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related to network but Ethernet might sound a bit too similar to internet

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which might be why internet port connector comes up as a suggested search

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on Google despite the words having completely different Origins let's take

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a look at where Ethernet and some other common Tech terms really came from even

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though Ethernet made its debut in 1980

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the answer to this question actually goes all the way back to the 1600s back

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then scientists believed it was impossible for light to travel through a

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vacuum so they theorized that outer space was actually full of some sort of

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substance that they dubbed luminiferous ether but what does this have to do with

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Ethernet well although the theory of special relativity showed that light

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could indeed move through a vacuum in the early 20th century one of the

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inventors of the Ethernet protocol thought The non-existent luminiferous

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Ether was a good concept to name the new standard after since he envisioned data

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cables running all throughout the headquarters of Xerox Park and like The

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hypothesized Ether Ethernet would be a passive signal transmitting solution

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that would be present everywhere turns out he was right as Ethernet cables

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don't require active circuitry to function and are common as dirt but

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perhaps Wi-Fi is the better comparison to The Ether these days slightly less

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luminiferous let's move on and now look at a popular brand name Pentium Intel is

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currently phasing out Pentium but these processors were so common in the 1990s

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that it almost became synonimous with good CPU for mainstream consumers even

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if that wasn't always the case if Pentium kind of sounds like a chemical

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element that was indeed the idea prior to the Pentium Intel's mainstream PC

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CPUs were all typically known by numbers ending in 86 starting with the original

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8086 processor then continuing through the 486 released in 1989 naturally you

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might think they'd go with 586 for the Next Generation but by this point the

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competition between Intel and AMD had become quite serious and AMD was

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labeling its processors with the same numbers unsurprising considering AMD

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actually got their start by being a Second Source chip supplier for Intel

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this meant that Intel needed a brand name that was distinct to set their

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chips apart and beyond that they actually lost a court battle in 1991

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when they tried to trademark 386 because model numbers are often considered too

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legally generic to get trademark protection so Intel hired a marketing

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firm to come up with a name and they specifically requested a name that

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sounded like an important ingredient that would enhance the PC experience the

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marketing firm thought of sodium since it's an ingredient that enhances the

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flavor of food and started writing down possible names that ended in ium since

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that's kind of sounds like some kind of chemical ingredient I don't know Pentium

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was one of those names and since pent means five it seemed like a natural name

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for a processor that otherwise would have been called 586 you see how that

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okay by the time the late 1990s rolled around the same marketing firm actually

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found that Pentium was even more recognized than Intel which by the way

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stands for integrated Electronics as the original name of the company more noise

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sounded too much like more noise next

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let's talk about a tech origin story that's so widely accepted most people

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don't even realize it's not quite accurate we'll do that right after we

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and Safeguard your family's digital world today bug has been an incredibly

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enduring term for any kind of problem real or perceived with anything

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electronic a popularly accepted atmology comes from Grace Hopper a computer

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scientist who actually served as a rear Admiral in the US Navy The Story Goes

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that while she was working on a massive 23 ton computer at Harvard in the mid1

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1940s the system encountered an error that was ultimately discovered to have

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been caused by a moth that got trapped inside the dead Critter was then taped

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into a paper log book with the words first actual case of bug being found

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although the story helped to popularize the term bug it wasn't the first use of

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bug to mean technical problem as some folks believe Hopper herself confirmed

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that bug was already being used during World War II to describe frustrations

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with radar systems prior to that the word bug appeared in writing during the

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1800s to describe any sort of equipment problem so it's unclear if a single

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person coined the term it's more likely this definition of bug originated from a

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much older use of the word to mean something scary this usage dated back to

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at least the time of Shakespeare with an anemology that possibly goes all the way

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back to a stone age word for to puff up

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you know like a big scary monster or a fish and there's nothing more

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frightening than a bug that bricks your expensive graphics card so maybe the

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caveman were on to something and I think you were on to something watching this

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video hey thanks hey like it if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it

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