• SadSadSatellite
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    1 year ago

    A whole ass article and web page that can be summed up in three words:

    It was cheaper

  • code@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if they actually considered a reversible design of if this is just being said in hindsight. Reversible connectors were never really a thing I remember hearing about the USB was in its infancy. VGA, DVI, serial, parallel, PS/2, joystick… Nothing was reversible nor was it expected to be.