043/365 - Cat 5 Cable
Today I gave training to a group of engineers at work. Snapped this photo on my way out the door. For those of you that are cool and not nerdy like me, this is a cat(egory) 5 cable. It sounds crazy, but generally it's what connects the world and makes things like Flickr possible. While Cat 5 cable doesn't form the backbone of the internet by any stretch, it's generally the last mile for most wired users in corporate environments.
There's an excellent writeup about the advent of the internet that I read a few years ago. When you think about it, it's a pretty amazing time to be alive. In 1000 years, if humanity still exists, our ancestors will look back on the early 21st century as a time when mankind became united by one ubiquitous network and when we first started to reach beyond the rock we evolved on.
043/365 - Cat 5 Cable
Today I gave training to a group of engineers at work. Snapped this photo on my way out the door. For those of you that are cool and not nerdy like me, this is a cat(egory) 5 cable. It sounds crazy, but generally it's what connects the world and makes things like Flickr possible. While Cat 5 cable doesn't form the backbone of the internet by any stretch, it's generally the last mile for most wired users in corporate environments.
There's an excellent writeup about the advent of the internet that I read a few years ago. When you think about it, it's a pretty amazing time to be alive. In 1000 years, if humanity still exists, our ancestors will look back on the early 21st century as a time when mankind became united by one ubiquitous network and when we first started to reach beyond the rock we evolved on.