Although many LAN technologies were developed and deployed, the most famous and succesful was Ethernet, developed in the early 1970s at Xerox PARC, and still widely used today.
尽管开发和部署了许多 LAN 技术,但最著名和最成功的是太网,它于 1970 年代早期在 Xerox PARC 开发,至今仍在广泛使用。
For your computer to get this video, the first connection is to your local area network, or LAN, which might be every device in your house that's connected to your wifi router.