The oral history of USB

The Universal Serial Bus first showed up in 1996, replacing SCSI and other interfaces-and the haphazard wizardry it took to get anything working with them. That's not to say, however, that it was easy-or that things just worked from then on. Joel Johnson (previously) interviews Ajay Bhatt, formerly of Intel, who dreamed of "one port to rule them all."

I also struggled, even as a technologist. I struggled with upgrading my PC when the multimedia cards first started coming out. I looked at the architecture, and I thought, you know what? There are better ways of working with computers, and this is just too difficult.

I like the idea of solving the world's interoperativity problems with "power breakfasts at Denny's".