Connectors That Changed the World
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Connectors That Changed the World
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#2USB had a quite successful precursor: RS-232. The serial standard is now 60 years old (!) and still much more widespread then USB in many industry machines.
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#3As a software guy I have to feel that APIs are too general. How about REST or even JSON?
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#4This article is a list of connectors that doesn't go into much detail into how each changed the world.
The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as late as the article suggested - is also sufficiently wrong to put everything else written in the article into doubt.
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#5USB had a quite successful precursor: RS-232. The serial standard is now 60 years old (!) and still much more widespread then USB in many industry machines.
And yet I wonder how many of those machines have USB to RS-232 converters internally... not that I've ever been asked to design such a thing....
Properly implemented RS-232 is a thing of beauty, in a way that USB just can't be. It's a shame so many implementations (of both!) fall short.
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#6Switchcraft 280 and XLR connectors deserve mention for longevity and ubiquity in music and recording.
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#7USB had a quite successful precursor: RS-232. The serial standard is now 60 years old (!) and still much more widespread then USB in many industry machines.
And yet I wonder how many of those machines have USB to RS-232 converters internally... not that I've ever been asked to design such a thing.... Properly implemented RS-232 is a thing of beauty, in a way that USB just can't be. It's a shame so many implementations (of both!) fall short.
The ones that barf out a debug console from the processor's first init steps are probably not USB internally. ;)
But yeah, USB never came up with a good way to do peer-to-peer. On-the-go is super driver heavy and just not useful in the way RS232 is. New TVs still ship with it, for home automation reasons.
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#8USB had a quite successful precursor: RS-232. The serial standard is now 60 years old (!) and still much more widespread then USB in many industry machines.
RS232 is the electrical signal standard; the chunky connector usually used is a DB25 but basic RS232 can fit in DB9
RJ11 (eg landline) and RJ45 (eg ethernet) were also connectors that achieved very widespread use, as did RG6 (eg cable tv)
(I'm not going to say they changed the world and I'm also not so sure I like the grab-bag nature of the various things the article lists either
for example, 8, 14 and 16 (and more) pin DIP were pretty important, or was it the TTL signals they carried or was it the connecting solder that ultimately made USB valuable... dumb article to write as a listicle.
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#9This article is a list of connectors that doesn't go into much detail into how each changed the world. The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as late as the article suggested - is also sufficiently wrong to put everything else written in the article into doubt.
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#10Is it bothering anyone else that several of the images are incorrectly labeled? The female Micro B is clearly a male Micro B and the female Lightning appears to be the female end of a Micro B to Type C converter.