Universal Serial Bus

noun

: usb

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Photograph: Tarik Vision/Getty Images The very name, Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is an ambitious promise: One port to rule them all. Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 3 July 2024 Here’s how to check when there’s nothing printed: Windows: Click the Windows logo or key, search for and open Device Manager, click on Universal Serial Bus controllers. Simon Hill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023 In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Universal Serial Bus was in 1994

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“Universal Serial Bus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Universal%20Serial%20Bus. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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