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2/ Early networking was based on token ring/token bus, which were like tokens in ethereum sense except *really* scarce: 1 per network
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4/ What replaced token networks was... Ethernet! Ethereum isn't the first technology to be named after the fifth element
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5/ Here's the funny thing: Ethernet functions by allowing "double spending" of bandwidth and fixing it ex post via collision detection
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7/ Weird history rhyming in reverse huh? A token is a key (crypto private key or not). Early token networks were 1-shared-key economies
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