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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • The idea was first documented in a memo that Metcalfe wrote on May 22, 1973, where he named it after the luminiferous aether once postulated to exist as an “omnipresent, completely passive medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves.”

    Hmm, I really thought there would be some clever name I didn’t understand, but it really is that aether.