What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)
103 points by ibobev | 79 comments
Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.
#lan on Hacker News
3 stories tagged lan, newest first.
New gTLD Application for .lan(newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
116 points by mzajc | 140 comments
ICANN application details page for a new generic top-level domain application for the string .lan, in pre-evaluation processing.
Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years(spectrum.ieee.org)
365 points by pseudolus | 354 comments
IEEE Spectrum article on Ethernet's 50-year history and its status as the worldwide standard LAN technology, recognized as an IEEE Milestone.