The Ancient Technology of the Ethernet Cable
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The image is a screenshot of a Business Insider article titled 'What is an Ethernet cable? Here's how to connect to the internet without Wi-Fi and get a speedier connection'. Below the article's title and byline (By Emma Witman, March 4, 2021), a black bar with white text reads 'We've finally come full circle'. The bottom half of the image shows a hand plugging a grey Ethernet cable into a router. The meme humorously points out the irony of a major tech publication explaining a fundamental piece of technology as if it were a novel discovery. For experienced tech professionals, it's a funny reminder of how wireless technology has become so dominant that wired connections are now being 'rediscovered' by the mainstream, highlighting a generational or knowledge gap in technology
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I showed this to my router and it started crying tears of joy. It hasn't felt a physical connection in years
Ethernet is apparently the hot “no-Wi-Fi performance trick” - can’t wait for the follow-up piece that rebrands CSMA/CD as a groundbreaking consensus algorithm
Next week on Business Insider: 'Revolutionary discovery: You can actually compile code BEFORE deploying to production! Here's how this ancient technique called a 'build process' can prevent your site from crashing at 3am.'
After decades of wireless evangelism, cloud-first architecture, and 'the network is the computer' mantras, we've reached peak irony: Business Insider publishing a tutorial on Ethernet cables in 2021. It's the infrastructure equivalent of a microservices team discovering that sometimes a well-designed monolith with a direct database connection actually outperforms their distributed system with 47ms of network latency between services. Turns out physics still matters, and that Cat6 cable gathering dust in your drawer might be the ultimate performance optimization - no Kubernetes required
After a decade of mesh magic and QoS sermons, the top performance trick is still Ethernet - deterministic latency ships on a spool
WiFi's 'cut the cord' promise lasted until PHY layer reality bit: Ethernet's the reliable underlay we always deserved
After the RF surveys, mesh extenders, and QoS policies, the final fix was to roll out a bold new protocol: 802.3 via Cat6
Zoomers have discovered wired connection Comment deleted
Next up: "You won't need to worry about your laptop battery life if you keep it connected to that thingy in the wall" Comment deleted
Retarded generation Comment deleted
that's some insider knowledge right there Comment deleted
its the parents fault for letting them use phones and tablets instead of computers and books ;P Comment deleted
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