I Just Learned What USB Really Stands For, And I Had No Idea

It makes a lot more sense now.

Did you know that Wi-Fi kind of means nothing?

I’d always assumed that because hi-fi stands for high fidelity, Wi-Fi was short for wireless fidelity. Nope: Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wi-Fi Alliance who led its name selection, said that “Wi-Fi doesn’t stand for anything. It is not an acronym. There is no meaning.”

Huh. So what about USB, the connection ports used for everything from chargers to keyboards and printers?

What does USB stand for?

Unlike Wi-Fi, USB is actually short for something: Universal Serial Bus. Its first known use was in 1995.

Until 1996, computers had “one or two serial ports, a parallel port,........

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