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what does "wire" mean for pb of binary wire format?

I am not sure if the question is about English or about tech.
Does the "wire" mean something in technical terms?

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>Solution :

It’s intended to be understood as "the format of the data as it travels on the wire (i.e. in a network)". In reality, it’s just "the binary protobuf format" – it doesn’t make any difference whether the proto message is being saved to disk, sent across a network, or just generated in memory.

This is in comparison with:

  • "The protobuf text format" (which isn’t very clearly documented as far as I can remember; it’s mostly used internally at Google)
  • "The protobuf JSON format"
  • Any in-memory representation
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