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The inventor of the USB had originally intended for it to be flippable, however that idea was scrapped due to the extra cost. Despite USB becoming the standard, he still regrets that decision. “In hindsight, we blew it,” he said.

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Happy birthday USB: The standard turns 20, and proud inventor Ajay Bhatt tells all

Intel’s calling November 15, 1995, the 20th birthday of USB. But it’s not enough to have a birthday anymore; you need an origin story, too. And for USB, one of most popular technology standards of the PC era, that story is a humble one: printer problems at home. That’s what drove Intel Fellow Ajay Bhatt’s multi-year obsession to make the Universal Serial Bus a reality.

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“Anytime (my family) wanted to do something simple like print a letter for my daughter’s school, I would get a phone call from my wife that she just can’t print it,” Bhatt said. “She does something, but nothing happens to the printer.”

In an interview with PCWorld, Bhatt spoke at length about USB’s humble origins, the fight to make it a broad standard, and w… Continue Reading

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2999836/happy-birthday-usb-the-standard-turns-20-and-proud-inventor-ajay-bhatt-tells-all.html

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