Ethernet Is Named After Something Really Dumb (and other tech stories)

Well, Grace Hooper wrote: "First case of ACTUAL bug". Which means she made a small joke in that science diary, as they most likely had normal electronic bugs beforehand, but now first time a REAL bug caused a problem :D

It’s strange to think that “Celeron” and “Pentium” are now below-budget names that are being phased out. I remembered when “Pentium” was basically the thing to have.

Next video - LTT name history: How Linus' predecessors came to Canada

I'm glad that there's finally a major channel debunking the "bug" story

"Where there's smoke, there's a Pentium" - Thats the phrase I will forever remember about the Pentium.

[Please read edit!] Just fyi, you are attributing the theory that light can travel through a vacuum to the wrong person. It was maxwell who proposed the laws that allowed it. Einstein merely built special relativity from Maxwell's laws, but Einstein was not the first to state that light could propograte through a vacuum Edit: Okay, looks like I need to do research instead of going off what I thought I knew and had been taught in formal education. My fault. As some of the comments have pointed out, it was not Maxwell. Maxwell did actually still believe there was some ether that light traveled through, rather than being able to travel through a vacuum. The Michelson-Morley experiment was the first to provide strong evidence against an ether in 1887. Idk if Einstein can really be credited for suggesting the lack of an ether, BUT his paper on special relativity is considered to have done away with the ether for good. So LTT was at least close, if not correct, depending on your interpretation and perspective, and I was pretty unequivocally wrong. Tl;dr: LTT is at least mostly right, I was wrong. Look up the Michelson-Morley experiment.

The use of the word "actual" in the log book definitely suggests to me that those writing in it were previously using the term "bug".

I figured bug originated from a term to describe an annoyance. "quit bugging me".

Around 1970 I worked at a printing company and the company was contracted to produce a 30-page-high quality booklet honoring Grace Hopper.

That journal was a classified document for a few years. I remember the day when I heard the first time about Hopper's joke. There was so much excitement, and chatter whenever we heard something. Those were some amazing days, except the headache, thrill, and distrust amongs friends all caused by espionage.

Pentium peaked when Weird Al released "It's All About the Pentiums."

I think the name is cool rather than dumb. A bit weird, but cool. Yes, the way it was referred to as the first actual computer bug, means the term bug already existed.

It's fun how the current use of the term bug comes also from a lady called "Grasshopper", oh, wait, sorry, "Grace Hopper"

you use the ETHERNET to catch the ETHER BUNNY!

Grace Hopper discovering a bug is kinda funny as it is

The sentence „Intel is phasing out Pentium“ had me so startled that I had to check whether this video was uploaded 25 years ago.

Ethernet is a good name, given we often use ether today to refer to "the beyond" in general, rather than the original definition of the upper atmosphere. Its very fitting for a network connection.

Seems like Ethernet was given a really smart name.

And to "patch" a program came from the old punch cards or paper tape, where in order to change a program without having to completely remake the card or tape, one would apply a patch to cover the holes where needed. You literally had to patch the programs.

I guess the nearest to "luminiferous" ethernet today would be using fibre?