The Triumph of Ethernet: Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard (review)
Janet Abbate · Technology and Culture · 2003
The Internet is now the subject of a substantial scholarly literature, in part because of that network's impressive scale and worldwide scope. But another key part of our information infrastructure has been less visible to the public and to historians: local area networks, or LANs. These are the networks linking computers within a single campus or office building; like local streets feeding into the highway system, LANs provide most of us with the means to access the Internet. In The Triumph of Ethernet, business historian Urs von Burg provides one of the first scholarly accounts of the history of LANs.