[gaius]

I hope so, since it's actually 9 years younger than Unix ;-)

[eru]

Robert Metcalf [the inventor of Ethernet] says that if something comes along to replace Ethernet, it will be called “Ethernet”, so therefore Ethernet will never die. Unix has already undergone several such transformations.

-- Ken Thompson

[from http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s02.html]