Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Bus serie universal (USB)
- Date
- 1996 · confidence high
- Place
- Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
- Credited to
- Ajay Bhatt and the USB consortium (Intel, Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, DEC, NEC, Nortel)
- People
- 👤 Ajay Bhatt1957–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Single connection and power interface for peripherals, with hot-plugging. It replaced the jungle of serial, parallel and PS/2 ports.
What it led to
- The USB flash drive and physical file exchange
- Standardised device charging (USB-C mandatory in the EU from 2024)
- Connecting any device to a computer with no configuration
Built on
- Apple II personal computer1977
- RS-232 serial port
Made possible
- USB flash drive1999
- USB-C
- universal mobile phone charging