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 1 day 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 1 day ago

https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/137839/ethernet-connector.png

Is the one I've always seen for ages.

[-] pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Is it standardized?

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

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

))<···>((

[-] lando55@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

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