Ajay Bhatt led the team at Intel that invented the Universal Serial Bus in the 1990s, fundamentally solving the nightmare of plugging massive, pin-heavy cables into the back of…

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Ajay Bhatt led the team at Intel that invented the Universal Serial Bus in the 1990s, fundamentally solving the nightmare of plugging massive, pin-heavy cables into the back of desktop computers, yet he never personally made a single dime in royalties. Intel decided to make the USB standard open and free to use for any manufacturer in order to encourage widespread adoption across the entire tech industry, a move that absolutely revolutionized consumer electronics. Bhatt claims he is perfectly happy with his contribution to society despite the lack of direct financial compensation, which is incredibly gracious for a guy who literally watched us all struggle to plug in his invention upside down on the first try for twenty straight years

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Ajay Bhatt led the team at Intel that invented the Universal Serial Bus in the 1990s, fundamentally solving the nightmare of plugging massive, pin-heavy cables into the back of…

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Universal Serial Bus inventor Ajay Bhatt specifically chose not to make the original USB design reversible because adding the extra wiring would have doubled the cost of manufacturing and potentially killed the project.

Early computers adopted the binary system of ones and zeros primarily because it was the easiest and most reliable way to represent data using electrical circuits that only had two states: on or off.

A second of brain activity took 40 minutes to simulate

Why vinyl records cut the bass before pressing

You probably don't need to safely eject flash drives

Your futuristic PC still follows a 1995 blueprint

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