USB

Picture of USB, interface between personal computers and peripheral devices
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 Monday January 15, 1996
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Basic information

AKA
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Category
others
Country
United States
Description
interface between personal computers and peripheral devices

Development of USB  started in 1995 by a group of seven companies:  Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel. 

Connecting external devices to computers easier, replacing many varieties of serial and parallel ports.

Led team at the US tech-giant Intel was inventor Ajay Bhatt.

First introduced in 1996.

Based on the physical design of the connectors and ports, there are three different types of USB cables: USB Type A, USB Type B and USB Type C.

Based on the functionality of the USB connectors, there are also two different versions of USB: USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.

Find more information about USB on Wikipedia

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Mercury
117.34 years
Venus
45.94 years
Mars
15.03 years
Jupiter
2.38 years
Saturn
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