This is ridiclous
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
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It's an Ethernet port. For some reason Apple decided
<···>is the glyph to use for that.I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols
https://i.redd.it/i-quadra-700-v0-j91ogbvkpsqa1.jpg?width=3969&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d2f7117f8dc196aefd6d504c711058f9d6e5594
They've used the same symbol since before we standardized on the RJ45 connector, or 10baseT. Back when ethernet was the wild west.
God I miss these abortions. The OG dongles.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/kvc2-iElmyi9GVdJ4GREXr8VjtNXe-4mMIvuc1i84cwn_7NI4Us152x52palUI1XvnRGARWlMHeOQLqXtaHAteQ_4EojHoojuFZvvcM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Apple_AAUI_transceiver_and_cable.jpg/1200px-Apple_AAUI_transceiver_and_cable.jpg
Back when men were men, and ethernet cables were an inch thick and needed heavy equipment to use.
Do you mean abominations? lol.
No, we miss abortions in this neighborhood, brother.
They’ve used that exact same symbol since they first added an Ethernet port to their computers in the early 1990’s. It was one of the first mass-market computers with integrated Ethernet. It literally defined the standard when there was no standards body for such a thing.
The port that put the “i” in the original iMac
Is there a standardized symbol for Ethernet? The only one on the Wikipedia page for Ethernet is Apple's.
https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/137839/ethernet-connector.png
Is the one I've always seen for ages.
Is it standardized?
And honestly, it depicts a modern Ethernet network worse than the Apple icon does
Literally ISO
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5988
And yes, we use switches but the lower network layers abstract that away and a LAN is still like a single bus on the network layer and up.
))<···>((
How do I know that's not just a segment of a giant token ring