3Com Corporation Cotton Polo Shirt
S / Charcoal
$38.99
Sale price
$38.99
Regular price
Skip to product information
GhostCorp Apparel - resurrecting iconic corporate ghosts.
Celebrate the story of 3Com, the company that helped bring Ethernet and local-area networking into everyday business life. Founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, and others, 3Com grew from Ethernet adapter cards into a broad maker of network products. This polo connects with the people who remember the rise of office networks, personal-computer setups, and the systems that linked them. Wear it to a technology meetup, a casual workday, or a gathering of networking history enthusiasts.
3Com Corporation was an American digital electronics manufacturer founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, and others. Its name referred to Computer Communication Compatibility, and its work centered on Ethernet, a technology Metcalfe had co-invented. After developing early Ethernet at Xerox PARC with David Boggs, Metcalfe left Xerox and formed the company. 3Com began with Ethernet adapter cards and expanded into local-area-network software, servers, switches, routers, wireless products, and voice and security systems. It became public in 1984 and merged with Bridge Communications in 1987, adding communications servers and network equipment. A 1997 merger with USRobotics brought modem products and Palm into the company; Palm and USRobotics later became independent again. In 2003, 3Com formed H3C with Huawei and moved its headquarters from Santa Clara, California, to Marlborough, Massachusetts. It acquired full ownership of H3C in 2007. Hewlett-Packard completed its acquisition of 3Com on April 12, 2010. After HP's 2015 separation, the business continued with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and was integrated into its Aruba Networks unit.
3Com Corporation Cotton Polo Shirt
$38.99
Sale price
$38.99
Regular price
Celebrate the story of 3Com, the company that helped bring Ethernet and local-area networking into everyday business life. Founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, and others, 3Com grew from Ethernet adapter cards into a broad maker of network products. This polo connects with the people who remember the rise of office networks, personal-computer setups, and the systems that linked them. Wear it to a technology meetup, a casual workday, or a gathering of networking history enthusiasts.
3Com Corporation was an American digital electronics manufacturer founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, and others. Its name referred to Computer Communication Compatibility, and its work centered on Ethernet, a technology Metcalfe had co-invented. After developing early Ethernet at Xerox PARC with David Boggs, Metcalfe left Xerox and formed the company. 3Com began with Ethernet adapter cards and expanded into local-area-network software, servers, switches, routers, wireless products, and voice and security systems. It became public in 1984 and merged with Bridge Communications in 1987, adding communications servers and network equipment. A 1997 merger with USRobotics brought modem products and Palm into the company; Palm and USRobotics later became independent again. In 2003, 3Com formed H3C with Huawei and moved its headquarters from Santa Clara, California, to Marlborough, Massachusetts. It acquired full ownership of H3C in 2007. Hewlett-Packard completed its acquisition of 3Com on April 12, 2010. After HP's 2015 separation, the business continued with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and was integrated into its Aruba Networks unit.
GhostCorp Apparel — resurrecting iconic corporate ghosts
This Napster Polo Shirt gives late-90s internet chaos a cleaner, more polished look. It is perfect for music fans, tech workers, former college dorm downloaders, startup nostalgia people, MP3 collectors, file-sharing veterans, and anyone who wants a shirt that says “I remember when the music industry panicked,” but still works for casual Friday. Napster was founded in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and became one of the most famous names in early peer-to-peer music sharing. The original service let users search for and share MP3 files, turning dorm rooms, dial-up connections, CD binders, and hard drives full of mislabeled songs into a full-blown cultural moment. It also triggered major legal battles with record labels and artists before the original service was shut down. 👔 The polo style works well for casual Fridays, tech meetups, music events, startup gatherings, retro internet parties, record store trips, DJ nights, and family gatherings where someone will absolutely bring up LimeWire next 🎧 A sharp nod to Napster, Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker, MP3 sharing, peer-to-peer networks, digital music, file sharing, dorm-room internet, CD ripping, Winamp playlists, LimeWire, Kazaa, iTunes, Rhapsody, Roxio, Best Buy, and early streaming history 💿 Napster’s brand lived several lives after the original service ended. Roxio acquired the assets and relaunched Napster as a legal digital music store, Best Buy later owned it, and Rhapsody acquired Napster-related assets in 2011. 📡 The Napster name continued into the streaming era, eventually becoming part of later digital music and subscription-service history. In 2025, Infinite Reality announced a deal to acquire Napster for $207 million, showing that one of the internet’s most notorious music brands still had cultural value decades after its first wave. This Napster polo makes a great gift for him, music fan gift, tech nostalgia gift, internet history gift, startup gift, 90s kid gift, DJ gift, software developer gift, or polished retro web apparel for anyone who remembers when downloading one song could take twenty minutes and still feel like the future. Product features - Durable double-pique fabric designed for crisp embroidery - Modern classic fit with side seams and vents for better shape - Contoured welt collar and cuffs with a clean, topstitched shoulder - Soft Sport Grey option (90/10 cotton/poly) and 100% ring-spun cotton varieties - Tear-away label, dyed-to-match buttons, and finished placket for polished comfort Care instructions
EU representative: HONSON VENTURES LIMITED, gpsr@honsonventures.com, 3, Gnaftis House flat 102, Limassol, Mesa Geitonia, 4003, CY
Product information: Gildan 85800, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC