An infrastructure to connect computers to each other came in 1977 courtesy of Datapoint, which developed ARCNET (Attached Resource Computer Network) for their Datapoint 2200 computers to connect to a shared floppy data storage system via coax cables. It eventually conceded to the much more practical Ethernet, which was standardized in 1985, but laid the thought work and foundation for a functional computer network consisting of many micro computers. There are still ARCNETs in operation today.