While it looks like ethernet I don’t see a plug on it, so it could be any ethernet looking cable (coaxial, rj11, etc). Could be wrong though

2000-2010 seems a pretty good guess though, who would throw brand new stuff away

While i dislikes ai i think it’s one of the only ways to create a foss software with a small time with a reasonably small number of people. But this does indeed just look like a no-effort ai post