The legend of the Novell NE2000
Lobsters /t/historical · August 10, 2026
curated by Sönke
A video dives into the lore of Novell's NE2000, the ubiquitous 1990s network card whose cheap clones made Ethernet affordable and whose register-compatible design haunted driver authors for decades. Retro-hardware nostalgia at its nerdiest.
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