This document summarizes the history of PC router research. It discusses several notable papers on click modular router from 1999, RouteBricks from 2009, PacketShader from 2011, and NetMap from 2012. These papers presented techniques like polling, parallelization using multi-cores/GPUs, pipelining, and batch processing to improve routing performance. Specific routing tables like DIR-24-8-BASIC and Waldvogel are also mentioned.