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skunkadelic t1_jdz02a4 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Reply to comment by theassassintherapist in ELI5 North American USB power in Europe by historyguy2

That isn't why it's called universal. Universal serial bus means common. It was developed to do away with all the different interfaces we had before. Serial, parallel, PS2, gameport, etc. You think having usb mini/micro, Thunderbolt, etc is annoying now, it was atrocious 25 years ago.