History of USB

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Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the system used for connecting peripheral devices to personal computers by means of standard connections and communication systems. It was developed during January 1996 by a cluster of companies such as the Intel, Compaq, Microsoft, Digital IBM, and Northern Telecom. These companies also formed the USB Implementation Forum Inc. (USB-IF) which is a nonprofit organization publishing the specifications of the technology and giving them support for further development and adoption of the USB technology. It is developed to replace the different kinds of parallel and serial ports on a computer by providing an additional peripheral device which is quick and easy to use for the users.

Universal Serial Bus is also being used to connect different peripheral devices to your personal computer like the keyboards, printers, digital cameras, media players, internal hard drives and flash drives. It is also the reason it became a standard mode of connectivity. First it was designed just for personal computers but as time passed it has been an option for devices like...

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