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.
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
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.
How do I know that’s not just a segment of a giant token ring
Is it standardized?
And honestly, it depicts a modern Ethernet network worse than the Apple icon does
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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.
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