"You'd always stick it in wrong at least once, preferably twice, and then swear about it under your breath, as was the style at that time. And the smaller devices had the micro USB ports that had the same problem. And you'd have to take out your mouse's ball and gently clean all the lint off it when it would start getting all onery. And don't even get me started about when they removed all the audio jacks from all the cellular phones!"

USB-A was a rare case of a quantum-locked consumer device. It would not reveal its orientation until after observing all possible combinations.

I'll make and sell USBC cables that only have pins on one side of the connectors, marketing them as retro nostalgic.

I will not be marking them differently from your other cables, for authenticity of the experience.

One day, children will ask why we don't make the plugs different shapes so you know if you're using a 60 watt cable or a 240 watt cable or something in between.

(I do not know anything about electricity so I'm certain there's a better way to explain this but it's bananas I have USB cables that look identical but my Steam Deck will die while plugged in if I grab the wrong one)

One day USB-A will be so uncommon

Every USB-C to C connector I've seen ends up coming with half a dozen adapters, because cell phones seem like the only device that uses it reliably.

USB-A, the fonz of USB.

I’ll see myself out.

No, not likely.

USB A and B still have use cases, predominently in their physical strength.

For any use case that requires a stronger socket that will take abuse and needs to hold longer, then USB C fails.

Its smaller and more brittle, more prone to failing under pressure.

And some people were gifted with the clairvoyance to always plug it in one go. Yes I know at least a few.

Grandpa, what's a USB? Is that one of those old three letter groups that were part of the big group you always talk about? The, uh... guvver men?

it's funny because nobody ever mentions how much of a bitch it was to plug in AT ports without pulling the whole unit out.

My old chargers are all USB-A, and they all still work. I'll be needing that standard for a while, still.

Also, almost always, the open side on the appliance is down, and the blocked side is up, so you just need to put the blocked side of the cable down.

Do people have a massive skill issue? I get it in first try almost every time.

People thinking there will be advanced electronics in the next decades. How naive /s

Honestly, I would like an L-shaped USB standard. It would make it so much easier to figure out what orientation things should go. I have a super-tower PC, and there isn't enough ambient light behind it for me to easily identify where to stick my USB peripherals.

I am pretty much just blindly stabbing, hoping to connect. 😣