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This is ridiclous

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago

What is the <--> port for? HTML? I thought that was port 80 or 443...

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago
[-] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Is it standardized?

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

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
[-] lando55@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Html doesn't use any port, that's HTTP

I only program in HTTPS

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a joke, note the conflation of port (physical connector) and port (one of 65536 virtual TCP/UDP pathways for applications). Also, HTTP(S) (port 80 or 443 by default) is literally "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" so it's fair to say it was designed to carry HTML.

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