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On 28 May 2015, USB was linked from Slashdot, a high-traffic website. (Traffic) All prior and subsequent edits to the article are noted in its revision history.

This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination. Discussions: Moved, 22 June 2011, from Universal Serial Bus to USB, see discussion. Moved, 14 January 2012, from USB to Universal Serial Bus, see discussion. Moved, 25 June 2013, from Universal Serial Bus to USB, see discussion.

The contents of the Device Firmware Upgrade‎ page were merged into USB on September 8, 2014. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Overview table inconsistency with Type-C

In the table in the overview section, USB Type-C is written as being introduced with USB 2.0. However, that seems impossible, since the Misplaced Pages page for Type-C says it was introduced in August 2014. Shouldn't it instead be changed to be available with 3.1 and up (2014 and after), and N/A before that?

--Martin0499 (talk) 20:15, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Agreed this makes sense... I fixed this along with some other table cleanup. However, while this is intuitive to the reader, there is some ambiguity as USB-C connectors need to be backwards compatible to USB 2.0 data/power spec... --Zojj tc 09:31, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Article conflated the USB Specification with the USB Connector Types

It's important to be clear about whether it is discussing the specification or the connector types. Granted the various revisions of the USB spec are pretty confusing, the article should do it's best to not confuse the reader. I've done my best to clean up some of the article. More work is needed, especially as there are multiple specifications now with the power delivery stuff. Please comment/fix if I screwed something up. --Zojj tc 10:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Please stop, as I think you’re making the confusion worse. A specification document can have errors, without the standard itself being erroneous, which is why a specification document can have its own versioning separate from the versioning of the standard itself. Here, you have tried to say “USB specification 1.1”, for example, but that suggests it’s version 1.1 of the specs for a standard called “USB”, but in fact, the standard itself is called “USB 1.1”.

Specifically, the actual documentation for the various USB standards follow the titling convention “USB 2.0 Specification”, and these in turn have a version (by release date). Coming up with wiki article headings very similar to those formal titles is not a great idea. — tooki (talk) 12:56, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Good points. We're in agreement that confusion is bad. So how can we word the distinction between the standard/specs and the connector type? "USB" by itself is unclear. --Zojj tc 17:43, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

"Endpoints" should not be used in hardware communications

You should not use the term "Endpoints" or "start point" outside networking--OSI layer 2 perhaps 3. This confuses the reader who does have a networking background. 23.127.12.137 (talk) 02:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

USB - Ethernet data adapters

Since many new PCs have dropped an Ethernet connector, there is interest in USB to Ethernet connectors for high speed and hopefully, secure QoS connections. I see discussion of Ethernet power issues, but not Ethernet data related issues associated with USB 3 etc. Some links to relevant info, at least would be very helpful. CuriousMarkE (talk) 04:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

DEPRECATED ? Possible misuse of this word

As a native US english speaker, I do not understand this use of "depricated". Perhaps there is some new definition becoming popular, but I think the dictionary definition should be used. deprecated Nightwatchrenband (talk) 21:32, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

See Deprecation, which explains the use of the term with regard to computer hardware, software and programming. General Ization 21:43, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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