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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols

[–] ayyy 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Is it standardized?

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I only program in HTTPS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.