ETHERNET CABLE!!!
ok so this weeks term is ethernet! An ethernet cable is usually what connects your router(HAHA) to your computer so you can get internet access. Like everything in computers there is a stupidly complicated name that no one uses, Ethernet is no different. Technically its called the RJ45 but ethernet is so much cooler to say.
So the first ethernet cable was made by Xerox, which was surprising to me... Anyways the first one they made could only transfer 3 megabits per second, not very impressive. The second generation, not surprisingly called 10mbit, could get up to 10 megabits, Fast Ethernet runs at 100 mbit, gigabit 1 gigabit, and at the pinnacle is 10 gigabit.
this is getting really dry so here is a picture a bunny with a pancake on its head
So just like wifi has standards ethernet has standards, too. The current standard IEE 802.3. This is basically the rule set that everything that uses ethernet has to follow.
im pretty much out of ideas at this point, expect maybe mentioning how we have a huge roll of stripped ethernet cables that we use to tie things up with pretty colors in robotics!
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