Learn everything about USB (Universal Serial Bus), its connection types, device compatibility, data transfer speeds, and how USB technology continues to evolve.
USB 3.0 was released almost 20 years ago in 2008 and it was the third major revision to the USB standard. It was a big improvement from USB 2.0 which first arrived in 2000 with transfer speeds of only 480 Mbit/s.
It is a concept of computing to name the port that allows you to connect peripherals to a computer. The creation of USB dates back to 1996, when a group of seven companies (including IBM, Intel, and Microsoft) developed the format to improve the interconnection capacity of technological devices.