USB Logo — The Universal Serial Bus (Universal Serial Bus USB ) is an industry standard developed in 1990 that defines the connectors and protocolsused in a bus to connect, communicate and provide power between computers and peripherals and electronic devices. 2 The development initiative came from Intel that created the USB Implementers Forum along with IBM , Northern Telecom , Compaq , Microsoft , Digital Equipment Corporation and NEC . Currently comprises over 685 companies.
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USB was designed to standardize the connection of peripherals such as mouse , keyboards , joysticks , scanners , digital cameras , mobile phones , media players , printers , multifunctional devices , systems, data acquisition , modems , network cards , sound cards , cards TV tunerand external DVD burner, hard drive external drive external. Its success has been complete, having moved to connectors as serial port , parallel port , game port , Apple Desktop Bus or PS / 2 to niche markets or considering to eliminate obsolete devices of modern computers, many of whom can be replaced by USB devices that implement these connectors. More