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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?
  
  The AAUI was an adapter that allowed old-world Macs to connect to ethernet
  
  Super old school Apple networking IIRC
- I've never ripped the head off of a DVI or VGA cable. Unlike HDMI and DP, then they put little grippy clips in em now so you got to get the needle nose pliers out and rip them out the port too.
  
  Personally I just splice all my cables into MIL-DTL-26482 connectors, that way I know they're solid!
  And they're big enough you can grip it with your whole hand!

USB-C and DisplayPort supremacy.

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