When they started showing the standard, tech magazines covered it like they had just invented flying cars.
“So get this, your joystick and your mouse will go… in the same plug! Theoretically every single device could be plugged into the same hole with the same number of pins!”
My second favorite instance of breathless tech coverage, next to the guy who first tested an optical mouse and reported on its ability to work on different surfaces by very heavily implying the sentence “you could use this thing on your dick!”
I don’t think people these days remember that mouse mats weren’t some hardcore gamer optimization thing, ball mice wouldn’t really work without one.
I do not, but that sounds like something Apple is due to invent for the first time any day.
I did have a mouse that had a touch surface instead of a mouse wheel but still felt exactly like a mousehweel using haptics. It was creepy, cool and kinda worked. That was Microsoft, though.
The Apple Magic Mouse is touch based too for buttons and gestures, but I malice the Magic track pad may have had a haptic actuator in it of simulating click and Force Touch (harder clicks). The track pads I on MacBooks have done this for over a decade and it works really well.
S/PDIF-TOSLINK is from the early 80s. Ethernet just a bit newer, from the mid-80s.
And we probably don’t want to start nitpicking about that antenna connector there.
Oh, and HDMI is from 2002, so about the same time.
Turns out that one USB-C is the only thing that isn’t a full on ancient connector. I/O has good reasons to move slowly and stay backwards compatible.
Huh, i had no idea that toslink was from the early 80s, interesting!
I was in school when USB was released and remember the first reviews of a USB stick came out…
I’m using toslink to connect my 2022 TV to my 25+ year old stereo. Toslink is great.
Same!
When they started showing the standard, tech magazines covered it like they had just invented flying cars.
“So get this, your joystick and your mouse will go… in the same plug! Theoretically every single device could be plugged into the same hole with the same number of pins!”
My second favorite instance of breathless tech coverage, next to the guy who first tested an optical mouse and reported on its ability to work on different surfaces by very heavily implying the sentence “you could use this thing on your dick!”
I don’t think people these days remember that mouse mats weren’t some hardcore gamer optimization thing, ball mice wouldn’t really work without one.
Sorry, old man tangent.
Oh, remember Lohitech’s weird experment with rumble / force feedback mice?
I think it was the Logitech iForceMan or iFeel or something…
The idea was that you would feel when the cursor was over a button or link, weird…
I do not, but that sounds like something Apple is due to invent for the first time any day.
I did have a mouse that had a touch surface instead of a mouse wheel but still felt exactly like a mousehweel using haptics. It was creepy, cool and kinda worked. That was Microsoft, though.
The Apple Magic Mouse is touch based too for buttons and gestures, but I malice the Magic track pad may have had a haptic actuator in it of simulating click and Force Touch (harder clicks). The track pads I on MacBooks have done this for over a decade and it works really well.
Yeah, ironically the fancy optical connection/cable is outdated
At least they no longer put PS/2 ports in there. But it was not too long ago
You can still get those for modern platforms.
I/O goes slooooow.