> all those internet cables you've got laying around are Ethernet, developed by Xerox.
Anything you're using today is probably not the version invented by Xerox. If one were to name any single inventor it would probably have been someone at SynOptics. Eventually it all became standardized, but by that point the only similarity to the original Xerox technology was the name. You probably knew all that, at some level, but it's important for us to teach the young 'uns a correct version of history that gives credit where due.
Anything you're using today is probably not the version invented by Xerox. If one were to name any single inventor it would probably have been someone at SynOptics. Eventually it all became standardized, but by that point the only similarity to the original Xerox technology was the name. You probably knew all that, at some level, but it's important for us to teach the young 'uns a correct version of history that gives credit where due.