Tech Term of the Week #3: Firewire at 9:24 AM

Firewire aka IEEE 1394 interface is just Apple's evil plan to make us have a billion different cables that plug into different ports.

oooooo a cable!

so basically Apple engineers were like "HEY, HOW WE WE BE DIFFERENT AND NOT CONFORM!!!!!!!! HOW BOUT WE MAKE A NEW PORT SO PEOPLE CANT USE USB FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and then they made Firewire.

ok ok enough of shitting on Apple.

So basically Firewire was designed to replace USB as the standard. Basically it runs faster than USB but USB is so prevalent that Firewire is pretty much dead. Even the Macs have dropped firewire i think....

ok since thats about it for Firewire and I'm tired and Goldberg is stupid and picked a stupid topic im going to leave u with a Fun Fact list from wikipedia

IEEE 1394b is used in military aircraft. Developed for use as the data bus on the F-22 Raptor, it is also used on the F-35 Lightning II.^[28] NASA's Space Shuttle also uses IEEE 1394b to monitor debris (foam, ice) which may hit the vehicle during launch.

FireWire can be used for ad-hoc (terminals only, no routers except where a FireWire hub is used) computer networks. Specifically, RFC 2734 specifies how to run IPv4 over the FireWire interface, and RFC 3146 specifies how to run IPv6.

and it sucks