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Honestly, with high quality USB A plugs you could feel the logo on the side that was "up", and if you knew which side your motherboard or front panel considered "up", it'd be easy to always plug devices in correctly.
Just that the vast majority of manufacturers stopped caring relatively early on, which meant you couldn't rely on it anymore.
The logo isn't that reliable but it's usually slim side up. Not sure about sideways ports though.
Only usually
I say usually but it's basically the rule. Of all my things only the QNAP NAS has a slim side down port, and maybe that's some other convention I'm not aware of since it's for the copy-data port. That's among a random pile consisting of a Cisco networking equipment, Intel NUC, old macbook, new microsoft and HP laptops, a hdmi/usb switch, ps4, and a raspberry pi
Ooo so much tech, much IT /s
I'm an IT worker so ya I have a bunch of junk and I've seen a lot of ports
Which is why that person is/was a massive liar.