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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.