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Old CAT5 cable has joke label comparing its length to pterodactyl wingspan

This is a screenshot of a Reddit user post, consisting of the post header and three stacked close-up photos of an old 50-foot CAT5 ethernet cable. The outer plastic jacket of the cable has an unusual, humorous printed label, which reads in full across the three shots: 'THE LENGTH OF THIS 50\' CABLE IS THE APPROXIMATE WINGSPAN OF LARGER PTERODACTYLS FROM THE MESOZOIC PERIOD'. The post caption from the uploader states they found the unusual cable while sorting through old CAT5 cables at their workplace, and the post has received 10 awards at the time the screenshot was taken. The humor comes from the unexpected replacement of boring standard product specification text with a silly, useless but accurate fun fact about prehistoric creatures.
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THE LENGTH OF THIS 50' CABLE IS THE APPROXIMATE WINGSPAN OF LARGER PTERODACTYLS FROM THE MESOZOIC PERIOD

Overview

This is a screenshot of a Reddit user post, consisting of the post header and three stacked close-up photos of an old 50-foot CAT5 ethernet cable. The outer plastic jacket of the cable has an unusual, humorous printed label, which reads in full across the three shots: 'THE LENGTH OF THIS 50\' CABLE IS THE APPROXIMATE WINGSPAN OF LARGER PTERODACTYLS FROM THE MESOZOIC PERIOD'. The post caption from the uploader states they found the unusual cable while sorting through old CAT5 cables at their workplace, and the post has received 10 awards at the time the screenshot was taken. The humor comes from the unexpected replacement of boring standard product specification text with a silly, useless but accurate fun fact about prehistoric creatures.

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This content was originally posted to the social platform Reddit by user u/sittin_on_grandma, one day before the screenshot was captured, with the image hosted on Reddit's native i.redd.it image hosting. The post went viral for the absurd, unexpected humorous labeling on a standard technical networking cable. This version of the image was sourced from an RSS feed of the X.com (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, where it was reposted as viral humorous content.

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