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This is ridiclous

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's an Ethernet port. For some reason Apple decided <···> is the glyph to use for that.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is there a standardized symbol for Ethernet? The only one on the Wikipedia page for Ethernet is Apple's.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is it standardized?

And honestly, it depicts a modern Ethernet network worse than the Apple icon does

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago
[–] lando55@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

How do I know that's not just a segment of a giant token ring