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Man they really glossed over the part where it switched over to twisted pair from coax. It’s like saying pancakes used to be waffles and then not bothering to explain.
Don't forget the thick net cable.
And I hated base2 network, so fiddy to work with and can be unreliable if a terminator was removed by a prankster or if there's a faulty network hardware somewhere. BaseT was the best of both reliable and cheap.
I still remember a trick to remember which is which: hub, switch, and router. A hub is like an intersection with only stop sign. Good for low traffic but high collision risk with high traffic. Switch is like an intersection with traffic light, better for high traffic. And router is like an intersection with police car present to enforce traffic.
In my networking class in high school, we were always told that a hub is just a dumb switch.
interesting analogy... we learned that it was just a computer standing with a megaphone screaming to all other pc's on the same hub... where a switch was like sending a papernote to your classmate during class ;-)