We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As foreign as the idea has become over the years, there once was a time when computers' I/O panels were littered with many different standard ...

The Universal Serial Bus, or USB for short, was introduced in 1996 as a solution by technology giants like Microsoft and IBM. The idea was to make connecting hardware to computers less of a hassle and ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our everyday gadgets and peripherals, all we've ever needed to do was plug them in and watch it all ...