ALOHAnet: wireless data pioneer

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Date
1971
Credit Line
Courtesy of Norm Abramson
Object ID
500004897

Norm Abramson started ALOHAnet at the University of Hawaii in the early 1970s. The first packet-switched wireless digital network, it inspired Ethernet and is an ancestor of GSM, Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth.