The console terminal demonstrate by who

Question

When I issue the command who in a bash terminal:

$ who
me   console      2018-11-09 07:13
me   ttys000      2018-11-09 07:13
me   ttys001      2018-11-09 07:13

The manual states:

who - show who is logged on
Print information about users who are currently logged in.

I am working on two terminals ttys000 and ttys001.

What does console mean in the above output?

Possibly related: What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'? — steeldriver, Nov 09 '18 at 14:17
Possibly related: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60641/linux-difference-between-dev-console-dev-tty-and-dev-tty0 — dr_, Nov 09 '18 at 14:18
Those pointing to Linux questions should note that the questioner is asking about MacOS, and about entries in the ASL. — JdeBP, Nov 09 '18 at 14:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '18 at 14:21

Taken from an answer from this question:

Historically the console was the main physical device used by the System Administrator to control the server, and TTYs were the users' serial terminals attached to a server. Now console and tty0 usually identify the same virtual device.

The console terminal demonstrate by who

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