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Reminds me of something from a few months ago: Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vic
by runlevel1 2y ago
Reminds me of something from a few months ago:
Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vice-chair of the first IEEE 802.3 task group that wrote a standard around RJ-45-style connector, appears and offers to take the blame.
That led to this short documentary: "TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y
- smokel 2y agoAnd here's a link to that particular Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_the_person_that_invented_rj45_connectors/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_...
- znpy 2y agolink to the old.reddit.com version for an actually readable page: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_the_person_that_invented_rj45_connectors/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_...
- ReptileMan 2y agoWhen it comes to connectors in IT the RJ45 and RJ12 are among the saner ones.
- voxadam 2y agoOne of my favorite examples of odd connectors has to be the massively clunky hermaphroditic Token Ring connector from IBM. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/IBM_hermaphroditic_connector.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/IBM_herm... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/IBMtrconnector.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/IBMtrcon... https://imgur.com/found-old-ibm-cable-while-cleaning-up-warehouse-dTBr3Lu https://imgur.com/found-old-ibm-cable-while-cleaning-up-ware...
- Ferret7446 2y agoI will point out that the "RJ45" connector is not. RJ45 is a standard that refers to both a connector and a wiring order, and the connector used in the RJ45 standard is not the same as the unkeyed 8P8C used on Ethernet cables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector#8P8C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_connector#8P8C