Kieran Kunhya

They did a full experiment of deploying a network, mostly sponsored by IBM and 3Com, which was a token ring network.

So token ring is something that probably almost no one knows about anymore.

It's a networking technology where you don't have routers, right?

Everyone is linked.

It's like really a ring.

And when you want to send a message, you talk to your neighbor who's going to put the message to the next one, who's going to put the things to the next one.

in terms of ring.

The issue with token ring is of course, is that it's very slow because every computer on the network needs to open the message, see if it's okay.

Is it for me?

No, it's not.

And then send it back like a token, which is traveling around the ring.

In the 80s, you're doing some telnet and sending mails as university.

That's okay, right?

But starts the 90s.

And the 90s, and start video games.

And when you have high latency in video games, basically you die, right?

So in 1994, 1995, around Doom and Duke Nukem coming around, they want a faster network.

So the students go and see the university and say, you know what?

We want a faster network.

We need to work.