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Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca

19h ago

USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world

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USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world

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Don't be a conformist!
Make your own decisions!
Keep Centronics Parallel alive!
If you aren't using at least 3 different types of DVI connectors your nerd card is revoked!
- I like the PS/2 cause it came out years before the PS2
- RIP e-SATA
  
  Esata was so cool for like 3 years. I needed more storage fast on my laptop and having only USB 2.0 that was a no go. But esta gave me one cable to an external SSD that did power and fast data.
  Then USB 3.0 came out, then UASP, and that completely killed esata.
- God, fuck those dual DVI-D ports. We had a bunch of computers at my first real job that used that crap and the breakout cables were such complete and utter shit. Dell, you had room for two DVI-D ports on your shit ass midtowers!
  EDIT: also fuck DVI-A. I've had one miserable encounter with that port and I'm glad it's dead. Either keep shit VGA, use DVI-D, or use the far superior DisplayPort with a locking cable.
  God I fucking love DisplayPort locking cables.
  
  DVI as a collective can eat shit and rot in a pile of shit.
  VGA was great, DP is nice but should be more adopted, HDMI is "meh" but usable, using DVI is like eating Trump's hemorrhoids
- I feel old. The only one of those I haven’t ever used is that AAUI port. What’s that for?
  
  Super old school Apple networking IIRC
  
  The AAUI was an adapter that allowed old-world Macs to connect to ethernet

USB-C and DisplayPort supremacy.

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