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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The PS2 (and AT) connectors keyboards and mice were largely using before USB were round…

Arguably still better though because you could just rotate the plug until it went in instead of flipping it back and forth 5 times to get it to go in. And they also had more reliable indication for orientation.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

They still are widely used. There are certain things that you can't do on some motherboards without a PS2 device.