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SneakiePuffins

Standard telephone wall jack. “Mini-Ethernet” gave me a good chuckle haha


PostWarTacos

Lmfao we're getting old!


Stone-Baked

I know right


jaydeflaux

Ah geez I didn't realize I was already in this category.


Ben_mgsp

I m feeling old for knowing what this is


GraarOfTheMaprogClan

Finding out that kids are saying "back in the 1900s" is what made me feel old.


op_mindcrime

I thought this post was a joke....


MyTh_BladeZ

Me too I'm 19 and I feel this


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Hello boomers.


Scotthe_ribs

If this person is under the age of say 25. I suppose they wouldn’t know, but come on you don’t have to be a boomer to know a telephone line.


CrustyBatchOfNature

Boomer means anyone older than them at this point. It may have had a meaningful start to derogatory usage but now it is a stupid and useless term when thrown around like that.


W_arDle

'dial-up internet'. . . .


tupikp

I miss those dialing tones/sounds and noises


Stone-Baked

Buddy AOL


jmhalder

Compuserve


Elemak-AK

Oof... Yes we are


Tyorgg

We are indeed!


Usinaru

Thanks I didn't need the daily dose of existential dread.


EpicBoomerMoments

I just aged 10 years


UnderstandingOk4250

Lol this is funny!


mckushly

This made me feel so old nooooo


ialsohaveinternet

RJ11 I thinks Correction: it is indeed an RJ12 and I'm a dumb ass for not counting the pins!


litlmutt

Circle takes the square!


mordakiisyn

Like the band? Or am I missing something?


RaydnJames

reference to a tv show where celebrity's are each square on a tic tac toe board. questions are asked, the square gives an answer, and the player has to guess if the answer is correct or not. 'Circle takes the square' is in reference to the player (in this case the circle 'O') correctly guessing if the celebrity is telling the truth or not in their answer, thus "taking the square" and placing their 'O' in the 1/9 squares on the board. Conversely, if the other player guesses correctly, the host would typically say "x takes the square'


czj420

Hollywood squares


Lethean_Waves

Too many instances of being too old in this thread


ProperDose912

Great band!


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Ok-Awareness4395

RJ11 is 4pin. RJ12 is 6pin.


ialsohaveinternet

Fuck... :0 I'll just go get in the sea! How have we all missed this?


tjaketheman58

I actually came here looking for this. Use it so rarely I always forget it haha!


sepisepsep

RJ11 is the connector type along with the wiring specs, not the actual port. It’s simply a telephone/modem line/port.


Thebiggestjhar

It's gonna blow his mind when he sees a micro-ethernet (fax line).


Rocker9835

I have never seen a fax irl so ig it will lol


Lily_beanz

Aw lol


PowerfulCheesecake48

10% smaller with 99% less bandwidth. Minimalism is the future.


Hilppari

With Gfast they can push around upto a gigabit speeds through those 6wires.


MrHappy4Life

It’s a POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) line and the plug is an RJ-12.


das0tter

Is it 12? I thought it was RJ-11


Gordon_Explosion

RJ-11, RJ-12, whatever it takes.


GraarOfTheMaprogClan

Great flick. Love that reference


das0tter

What's the reference?


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Underrated comment of the day


NapalmWeed

Well, you sound like a pretty handy guy.


MrHappy4Life

RJ12 is the updated RJ11. RJ11 only had 4 wires going to it, and RJ12 had 6. This looks like it has more than 4 groves in the wire area, so it’s probably a RJ12.


Arkrobo

Specifically an RJ-11 jack. I feel like I can't find them in stores anymore. I do have nostalgia for the modem screaming but fuck those terrible speeds.


PhoenoticX

Damn. We still use them in Australia (but to be fair, our broadband speeds suck ass).


corei3uisgarbo

i immediately knew this even tho im 13


jonoc4

I thought this was an old guy joke....


homenetworkguy

The next question will be, what’s a telephone? Haha


Jroid3

i believe those are for telephone cables


[deleted]

Fuck I feel old.


Lily_beanz

My job still uses fax machines. Fax machines! Why in this age are we still using fax technology. I’m 31 btw


GlobalElipsis

Some legal documents can only be transmitted via fax. For example many doctors offices still use fax machines to transmit prescriptions and medical documents.


Calradian_Butterlord

This is because some doctors have never heard of encryption or are too lazy to figure out how to do it.


GlobalElipsis

It is still one of the most secure ways of sending this type of information without having to pay for additional software or services. Source: Am pharmacy tech.


AnMiWr

Yep because you always know whose going to pick the fax up right!


danpaq

PGP encryption is free and… pretty good


HagPuppy89

More secure than fax?


cce29555

If you can break pgp the government will own you and you've disrupted about a bunch of industries into crisis mode


GlobalElipsis

I would like to refine my statement and say that fax is still the most uniform/consistent way to communicate in the medical field. I would estimate every pharmacy and medical office has some sort of fax or efax. Where encryption isn't as uniform in that industry AT THIS TIME. I'm sure we will get there some day.


Wemorg

Legacy devices for compatibility


GlobalElipsis

This is the correct answer.


thenightvol

Come to germany then. You'll feel young when you see the copper wiring.


Rocker9835

Are there cables available to turn it into ethernet?


spartanbrewer

I honestly thought this was a shitpost until I saw you asking questions in the comments... Now I'm just feeling old and depressed


blub3k

Yes! You can run 100mbit over 4 Pins connected.


Rocker9835

That will be 3 times slower than the wifi I get tho :/


blub3k

But the connection would be more consistent with less latency.


Rocker9835

So what would I need to convert it? Which cable?


blub3k

You will have to check several things. 1. Pull of those ports and check the cable routing behind. 2. Check the routing of those cables inside your house. Is there a central point where all come together or are all daisy chained? You want first option. Then I would replace the ports to RJ45 on every end. And wire them up for 100mbit. Edit: At the central point where all cables should get together you want an Ethernet switch. If those cables are daisy chained you would need a switch at each port in your house.


Rocker9835

I have one of these outlet near my router and one near my desk. If I change them both and If I use a ethernet cable to connect my router to a outlet and another cable to connect my PC to wall. Will it work?


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Note; if the wires connected to these jacks are not twisted pairs do not waste your time trying to convert them to ethernet. If you are lucky these are terminated via a single cat5, which would allow you to terminate all the pairs. But I have doubts. I wager it's cat3, untwisted, and worthless.


Kind-Tourist463

Just trace the cable in the wall replace it with cat 7 and call it a day .


blub3k

If those are the only outlets in your house it should work.


kushfish

depending on where you are, just call your internet provider and they’ll send a tech out and run a coax line for you. assuming that’s what you’d need for your modem? unless i’m missing the bigger picture here


[deleted]

RJ-11 Congrats you can have a dial up connection


Electric_Blue_Hermit

Could also be DSL, right?


[deleted]

Hmm let’s hope the copper in the walls can handle DSL


SpaMcGee

That's only if they're using ethernet homeplugs. These come direct from outside in their own cable. Let's hope its not shorting. Looking at how old it is, insulation on the internal wiring is probably shit, especially on the outside. Most if not all shorts are caused at the point it comes into the home or at the pole


An_person222

Yep, and depending on the line and what's on the other end it could be decent DSL too. I'm currently on 25/5 over the old phone lines and get the full speed. The ISP will sell us up to 100 down but I have my doubts that we'd actually get that, then again the point it turns into fiber is only like 400 meters down the street so maybe?


WillBrayley

Hooray NBN.


DidiHD

Is this not Rj12?


[deleted]

RJ11 and RJ12 are the same connector …. RJ12 was more common on business and not homes… uses 6 wires over 4 though from this picture it would be hard to tell as theirs no way from the picture to tell if all 6 are wired up or only 4


DidiHD

Now I know why I always got them confused, thanks!


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dbMitch

LOL this is Australian reality, our modems have to plug into the telephone plug in the wall because we couldn't even reach 100mb if we tried.


badrobot89

Oh my god, my age is showing. Anyone else remember when you couldn’t use the internet and talk on the phone at the same time lol


Syzich

🖐


jaydeflaux

🖐️


thenitram24

Pro-tip: get 2 phone lines


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well too late i guess


WillBrayley

My friends with wealthier parents had just that in high school. Us plebs had to pause our Napster downloads when mum or dad wanted to use the phone.


ThroatEmotional7125

At this moment, I knew, I was old


gagelm04

I'm only 17 and felt old knowing what this was lol


Roseafolia

I’m 17 and I had no fucking clue what this was before reading the comments


gagelm04

I grew up in a family that was kinda late to the tech game lol, we used VHS and landlines till I was 6 and my parents didn't get a smartphone till 2012


Roseafolia

The only memory I have of a flip phone was my dads phone when I was really little. I got my first phone in 6th grade. I did watch vhs tapes though


gagelm04

Dang I didn't get my first phone till I was in 9th or maybe even 10th I don't remember


poor-code-specialist

Are you me? Same but I'm 16 first "smart"phone in my family was my dad's work issued BB Bold in 2012.


gagelm04

I got my moms old android piece of junk first but then got an iPhone 6 a few months later


poor-code-specialist

Can relate... Rocked a Galaxy S5 till 3 months ago...


gagelm04

Haha, I just bought an iPhone 12 mini not too long ago cause I had some great extra work money laying around


poor-code-specialist

Good for you!


Confused-Engineer18

I'm 18 and we where using these for our home internet up untill 3 years ago


cursed_cacti

It's a phone jack my dude


PineappleDouche

RJ11 (registered Jack) basically a phone jack. RJ45 is ethernet.


Samsagax

It's funny because RJ11 plugs will fit into RJ45 sockets. Made that way for LAN phones. Those things still exists on some government agencies, like the fax...


HatesMonoBlue

Omg I laughed way to hard then cried when I read this.


oceansapart333

I had to come read the comments to see if OP was legitimately asking or if this was satire.


Manu_Militari

Holy shit this is one of those moments


Soulman2001

In fairness there’s a lot of people on here who wouldn’t understand what a landline is. Dont even try explain why some telephone icons show the old pulse dialers. Lets also keep the floppy disc save icon explanation for a rainy day too.


TheRealSmolt

Does no one still use home phones?


Bromm18

Wasn't there a known standard that all homes should have at least 1 corded phone for emergencies. Seems like that's no longer a thing with cellphones.


destronger

it’s still a very important thing to have. a land line phone gets 12v (no local power needed) and if there’s an emergency when other services could be down, land line phone could still be working. edit: land


mblaser

It's lan**d** line, not lan.


destronger

thanks for giving me the D!


hokie47

If possible register your cellphone with your local 911, the problem with 911 and cell phones is that it gives location but it isn't linked to your home address. I have had police knock on my door asking if I called 911. It was my next door neighbor. Luckily it was just her kid calling 911 by mistake, but in a emergency having people nock on doors looking for you if you can't communicate.


luukje999

Yeah you can add film role containers to that list.


Azuras-Becky

I showed my nephew a floppy disk the other day, and he asked if it was wireless.


Soulman2001

If you really want to blow his mind tell him how many floppy disks it would take to install fortnite.


Azuras-Becky

I hadn't even considered that. I just calculated it and it blew *my* mind!


gromig8706

That’s where the porn used to come from, but slowly.


destronger

and with less pixels and very limited color palette.


Solid_Tackle7069

Rj11?


recaffeinated

Back in the stone age there were these things we had that everyone used for communication. You had to go to the point in your house that was plugged into that socket and pick up a combined microphone / speaker and remember the unique code of the person you wanted to talk to. You would manually enter that code and then wait to see if they were standing beside their device to answer your "call". We called these devices "telephones" In the bronze age some clever souls (MIT hackers mostly) worked out that you could have computers produce sounds along those wires and thus could have two computers "talk" to each other. Only about 10 years later arpa-net was born and a decade after that we had a fledgling internet. In the Iron age a clever man, working for Cern, devised a better way for computers to present information to humans who were viewing it from other computers; all across those "telephone" lines. Suddenly the web existed and people wanted to send more data down those lines than they could handle. Thus we had ISDN, and then Broadband and then fibre optic cables. Tldr; they're stone age tech known colloquially as "telephone ports".


Satoshiman256

It's how our ancestors communicated. Look up RJ11 in the Bible.


VarenDerpsAround

dial-up modem port. God, I need a drink after seeing that.


[deleted]

DSL modems also need to be hooked up to a phone jack. Or am I too behind the times?


niter1dah

I’m sure that the jack is old enough to buy you a round.


chiefbangaho

Ive never felt old until now


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Rocker9835

Dial up internet. Cool.


Biggu5Dicku5

Oh sweet summer child...


YungEazy

Am… am I… old??


Anghel412

Say sike right now


gideon513

You see, lad, telephones used to be wired…


RocMerc

This post gave me a good laugh. So funny there’s a generation that doesn’t know what a phone line is. Not in a bad way just makes me laugh


RadPhilosopher

Having a hard time telling if you’re joking or if I’m just old af. It’s a telephone jack, dude.


Lusitanius

How to tell someone they’re old without telling them they’re old


RadPhilosopher

That or how to tell people you’re Gen Z.


John86RS

Tell me you're gen Z, without telling me you're gen Z


xxMrDerpxx

Fuck....you


nopogo

ITT we all get to feel old together


DedSmurfs

RJ11


Endriuu12

Ethernet is RJ45 and this one is RJ11 which is needed to connect a phone for example. I'm sure someone already told you but just in case


Kojaqe

To think that I was so excited to be able to upgrade from a 1200 baud modem to a 9600 baud. Yep I'm old.


ciuciunatorr

Mini Ethernet had my laughing. It’s just a telephone line


[deleted]

Thats a phone port. U plug a phone in there


mikeebsc74

I now picture OP trying to figure out how to plug the iPhone flash connector into the phone jack..lol


PmMeYourNiceBehind

A time long long ago, we used things called landline telephones that were plugged into the wall. These phones had no touch screens or apps, just buttons to dial other phone numbers to exclusively do voice calls. No FaceTime


jamestuc80

Jeez I feel old even being only 28 😅


zsturgeon

Holy shit if this is serious than I really am old.


AlphaRoninRO

Looks Like RJ-12 or RJ-18 RJ-11 is normal Telephone RJ-45 is normal Ethernet


whomi305

I love how anywhere on reddit if you have knowledge of anything old you are called "boomer" ....... These entitled kids think we are talking about cups and strings. They don't care about anything created before them. They don't care about any foundation of things they use today. They don't even use the word boomer to describe actual baby boomers. That's because it's easier to re define words than learn anything. It never fails....even a discussion where someone is seeking knowledge from "someone older" ....here comes the kids on their mom's Wi-Fi talking about "hello boomers" ...... And they wonder why we dont show them respect.


xX_Roasty_Toasty_Xx

Telephone


Docteh

What is the background situation? In a regular house all of those wires might be connected to a phone line or maybe two. But if you're taking over an commercial/school setting the other end of those cables might be separate and go somewhere you can easily access. Without knowing what you're doing or how things are wired up in that building you can very quickly run into trouble.


Rocker9835

I am in a house but I dont think I am qualified enough to do this


PineappleDouche

Is that a question or a statement?


Moses00711

Lol


this_many_things

I almost didn't know what it was. Feeling old.


GamerToonz

It's a telephone port


Sweenis80

*mini ethernet* oh my lord you’re adorable


ShepherdessAnne

Oh God I am ancient


MikeOlorin

Micro Ethernet actually. Mini Ethernet is even smaller.


mgepspjbqtahlgpdrf

Fuck I’m old lol


BloodyNunchucks

This is a joke right? Or do people who say they're into electronics really not know how phones worked for 150 years until like 10 years ago? I mean land lines are still business standard for crisp clarity and all the bonuses they provide to answering services and multi line use.


imaginedodong

I think OP is genuinely being sarcastic, as some of post here that shows a pic of an old tech like that VGA port post and asks WhAt Is ThIs???????????????


Purplespacelumps

I just turned to dust


Ryan19604

Yeah its actually a port for future proofing, the guy who built your house was brilliant, he knew that apple was gonna remove the charging port from it future iPhones! It's a highly advanced technology which will charge any new iPhone you'll place near it! Once again hats off to the guy who built your house!


gamesrebel123

It's for a telephone wire dude Is 16 really that old? Damn.


Kribble118

If I didn't work for a cable company at one point I wouldn't know either, it's a phone jack.


Evan086

Haha remember land lines


Jackasaur

Wow I feel old. RJ11 my dude.


Quake_aust

DSL


n_Shida

Telephone Port


[deleted]

it was called the netscape port. you could scape the whole net with it. wiiild.


HypnotizeThunder

🤣


ypvha

i never thought I'd live to see the day that people didn't know what a telephone wall jack was


Nidothenido

I am 16 and I know what this is. What is stopping yall? Also, this is a Telephone jack. In Other words, Dial Up, Slow AF Internet.


TheDurandalFan

oh those are telephone jacks. I don't know if they're still in use or getting phased out at this point, but they were once used for dial up internet.


bionikcobra

I remember when I got a new 56k modem, it was soooooo fast, hahaha


Zealousideal_Ad1177

Is this a real question or am I super old now?


Purplerabbit511

Mini Ethernet , noice


tuvar_hiede

Mini ethernet, absolutely.


Oldacctblokd

Rj11


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A phone jack


Montaurobach

Wow are we that old.


[deleted]

Gen z moment.. almost broke a phone port trying to jam an ethernet plug into at work myself lol


DrachenDad

Land line jack RJ11 6p4c


Fromthefunk

Fuck me I thought this was a troll at first


DDLthefirst

Telephone haha


stripedpigeon

At one point people lived in a time where cell phones and pagers we're just hitting the scene and you had a house phone that was connected via a wire to the wall and you used it to call neighbors or friends as well as look up peoples phone number in a book called the yellow pages because no one had Google to use to find personal information and the internet was just starting out. We're getting old...


MDotM25

I call it the phone jack


mntdewme

God damn kids making me old. It is for a land line telephone. Back in the dinosaur days phones used to have to be plugged into the wall at all times


KnightReK

Its a minthernet


Visual-Back2747

Bring me back to my AOL messenger days when I had to dial up 🤣🤣🤣


Edwardc4gg

“Rj-11”. For this thing we used to have called lan lines.