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The USB That Wasn’t

A few years before the Universal Serial Bus took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.

Lightning’s Lost Spark

We’re near the one-cable-to-rule-them-all point, but odds are that further battles will emerge from here. Let’s consider the state of port standards in the waning days of Lightning.

More Thoughts About Dongles

In honor of the new terrible dongle that Apple just released, let’s talk about dongles some more—including who came up with the term.

Thunderbolt Road

How Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast connector that recently turned 10, started life with a completely different look. (Fun fact: $400 Thunderbolt 3 cables exist.)

Donglevision

Pondering the many ways that dongles have taken over our lives, for better and for worse. One port will never rule them all, apparently.

Driver Disaster

Why USB ports changed the world for the better, or what I learned from a futile month of trying to get a 25-year-old webcam working on a modern PC.

Terrible Digital Trinkets

We did a status check on the current state of novelty USB drives so you don’t have to. (Not that we would expect you’d want to.)
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