alt Hacker News> AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.
Wut? Can you explain for dumb people?
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nxobject • today at 3:10 PM
If this comparison helps: before deprecation, the last practical use for AppleTalk was file sharing, e.g. legacy Time Machine. Apple dropped it, and encourages SMB and WebDAV.
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AppleTalk is a protocol that was used on classic/vintage Macs (think: early/late 1980s, 1990s) to create local networks. The wikipedia page [0] has a good historical overview, including the parallel rise of ethernet / tcp/ip (which won).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk