USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)

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• SadSadSatellite@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A whole ass article and web page that can be summed up in three words:

  It was cheaper

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  • PesosMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks

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  • Aspaldiko@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So true. Someone needs to make a Web extension hat just crowdsources the awnser. Like: “You wouldn’t belive hat happened next” “He Fell asleep. Read here how and why, if you like:”

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• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ‘we didn’t realise it looks identical on both sides’

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• code@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder if they actually considered a reversible design of if this is just being said in hindsight. Reversible connectors were never really a thing I remember hearing about the USB was in its infancy. VGA, DVI, serial, parallel, PS/2, joystick… Nothing was reversible nor was it expected to be.

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