Why You Can't Ever Plug a USB in Correctly on the First Try 😲

I know we've all been there, you're going to plug in a USB, you look at it assured it's the right way up but when you go to slide it in you fumble around and it's not accepting it.

So you flip it over and try again, nope. Wtf! You look right at the slot and line it up again and try to slide it in this time with a surgeons precision, finally that frustrating hole of shame accepts your package and it's a very satisfying feeling.

Ever wonder why they couldn't make a USB that works both ways? I'm glad you asked, let me explain..

In 1994 an Indian-American computer architect named Ajay Bhatt invented the Universal Serial Bus that has since been used worldwide in 20 million devices.

He shopped the idea to Microsoft and Apple but they turned him down. Intel took a chance on the crazy idea for one connector to rule them all and since it has changed the way we connect our devices. Sure it has made connecting our devices "easy" but why the hell is it so frustrating and why do we always get it wrong in our first attempt?

The answer is Bhatt's idea was made to be cheap. To make a USB that worked both ways would have doubled production costs and for such a new technology he wanted to keep it as inexpensive as possible so the masses would be quick to adopt it. Intel was also worried at the onset that if the technology was twice as expensive to produce and a bit larger the industry wouldn't want to give the USB a chance. So they went with a design that would only work one way up.

Perhaps they made the right decision, but that doesn't help when I'm trying to plug in my vape charger and I'm fumbling around with it three times to get it to go in 😁

I call this one "6 Times The Pain"

Thanks for reading,

@goldenarms