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Ross Kelly

USB hit the scene 30 years ago this month - we look back on its journey to standardization success

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Whether you’re working at home, the office, or on the go, you’ll likely have an assortment of various USB cables, USB flash drives and others at your disposal, as they’re a staple piece of equipment these days - but it hasn’t always been that way.

Development of Universal Serial Bus (USB) began accelerating in the early-to-mid 1990s, with the aim of streamlining connections between personal computers with devices such as displays or storage devices.

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