My brother-in-law the electrician said our coax runs are 'digital archaeology' and it got me thinking.

We were helping my sister move into her new place in Dayton last weekend, and I was re-running some lines in the crawlspace. He looked at the old, messy bundle of RG-6 and said, 'You guys are basically historians, preserving pathways for signals nobody even uses anymore.' It hit different because he works with clean, modern data cables all day. Are we holding onto old methods and gear too much, or is keeping that old infrastructure knowledge a key part of the job?

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alexlewis17d ago

A tech podcast called old coax the backbone of our dumb, stubborn internet.

claire_ramirez2217d ago

Wait, really? So is most of the internet still running on that old cable TV wiring? That's wild.