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USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world | USB 2.0 was the game-changer we needed to revolutionize data transfer between devices.
USB 2.0 was the game-changer we needed to revolutionize data transfer between devices.
Despite the standard being released in 2000, German publication Heise[machine translated] reminds us that it took a couple more years before PC makers started putting USB 2.0 on their devices. It wasn’t until the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 in June 2003 that the older operating system was able to take advantage of USB 2.0’s higher speeds. When paired with its cheaper licensing costs, it made absolute sense for manufacturers to implement USB 2.0 as the primary way for connecting peripherals and transferring data between devices.
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