With some inventions, it works like this: The idea sounds strange at first, then nothing happens for a few years, and suddenly the thing takes off. That's roughly how it went with the now ubiquitous ...
The universal serial bus (USB) enables users to connect plug-and-play devices to a PC, but different kinds of USB exist. USB 1.0 and 1.1 are older versions of the interface that are much slower than ...