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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 years ago (41 children)

About a decade ago or so, I found myself in a reddit argument with someone that claimed they had never attempted to plug a USB in unsuccessfully. They said that every single time they've plugged in, it was the correct way. Some people are insane.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The logo isn't that reliable but it's usually slim side up. Not sure about sideways ports though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only usually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ooo so much tech, much IT /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm an IT worker so ya I have a bunch of junk and I've seen a lot of ports

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Which is why that person is/was a massive liar.

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