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ethernet sounds like some mystical realm
Wait, did ethernet come from aether
Yes.
Same idea as "the cloud." You'd draw a diagram and the arrows would eventually go to a squiggly representation of someone else's problem.
Yeah, it's named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.
Makes me think of a net you use to capture things that are on the ethereal plane.
You use it to catch the ether bunny
Avatar and icon were similarly stolen from mysticism.