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To everyone born after 2007, here is a chart of common ports found on PCs, Laptops, Consoles and hardware plugins. Thanks for making us feel old.
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To everyone born after 2007, here is a chart of common ports found on PCs, Laptops, Consoles and hardware plugins. Thanks for making us feel old.

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To everyone born after 2007, here is a chart of common ports found on PCs, Laptops, Consoles and hardware plugins. Thanks for making us feel old.

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  1. jermygod

    Common ports that USED TO BE found on a PC, laptops

  2. momentimori

    I remember when they first colour coded the ports in 1997.

    It stopped you plugging your PS2 mouse into the keyboard port and it not working in the days when things weren’t hot swappable!

  4. an_0w1

    It doesn’t actually matter what PS/2 port you plug a device into. If it matters on *your* system that’s a driver problem.

  5. Adrian_Alucard

    Where is the DIN connector?

    I remember using the serial port (in the picture) for mouse and the DIN connector for keyboard back in the 90s

  7. Der0-

    Parallel printer cable…

    The one thing that audibly defined the era of computing in a 9 pin dot matrix printer striking the ink ribbon that’s been wound back for the 5th time…

  8. JosebaZilarte

    DE-9 aerial ports (and the associated [RS232 standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232)) *still* refuse to die in many industrial environments… more than 50(!) years after their introduction. And, frankly, it is a good hardware design, with screws on the sides to avoid unintended disconnections.

  10. Content_Trifle_6547

    Couldn’t you post this in a better quality?

  11. Fancy-Delivery5081

    “HDMI for **High End TVs**” is kinda cute though. 😄 Now even a trashy Raspberry Pi 400 got a HDMI Port 😪

  12. bcgibsontheonlyone

    I’m still processing that people born after 2007 are using the internet now

  15. No_Room4359

    this chart is quite outdated there is not usb c no one uses firewire now and hdmi is not for high end tvs it’s for all of them vga is less common if anything

  17. kingzain74

    There was a massive 3×4 poster of this at the computer repair shop I used to work at and before it closed down I took it home to keep.

    Definitely one of those nostalgia things

  19. andras1024

    The s-video port has wrong image, originally it is a 4 pin connector.

    The connector on the image is a proprietary one which combines component, composite and s-video signals.

  20. Big-Pound-5634

    If you FEEL old, then the problem is YOU not the chart. I know all these for first hand back in the days, somehow I don’t feel old, I feel 18 max.

  21. GeekyBit

    does this chart really Just use a female DB 9 and call it serial lol… First off serial is always Male on the computer i/o side and there is DB 9 and DB 25 male for serial, to be exact RS-232 for most PCs

  22. YesterdayDreamer

    DVI was a fun connector to use.

    Got a DVI cable, but it won’t fit. _Dude, you got a DVI-I cable for DVI-D port!_

    Ok, now I have a DVI-D cable, still doesn’t fit. _Duuuude, you got a dual-link cable for a single link port…_

  24. Ok_Internet_5058

    I always thought it was cool that computers had a dedicated port for the PlayStation 2 game system.

  25. t4thfavor

    The one for modern PC’s has one picture of a USB-C port on it.

  26. retro-gaming-lion

    I am born in 2008, as a computer repairer, who works with tech from early 90s to modern day, I feel old)))

  27. Mr_Wachtel

    The left Power Connector is the “Mickey Mouse-Plug” , pls Change it…

  28. Moust4ki

    Thé « modem » port on the image is a RJ11.

  30. Existing_Led9595

    I once used serial for a old receipt printer at my first job as a cashier, same with parallel for an old real printer, used ps/2 ports until 2018-ish when I replaced my old pc, never used game port, saw one on a pc at a thrift store.

    As for video, I still use vga because I am not dumping a good monitor for more hz, no monitor that I had until 2022 had dvi, and even then, never used it. Never used Micro-dvi and mini-dvi as I didn’t have a pc or laptop with that. Had an crt for a _whopping_ 2 weeks until my boiler burst and flooded my house (the pipes carried a shit ton of water) and it broke, no life to this day. I use hdmi for my pc, but only through a vga to hdmi adapter.

    I use Ethernet for my tv so I can watch YouTube with no buffering. Only time I used a modem port is when I plugged in an old dialer (which didn’t work, the company that provided service discontinued landlines a long time ago).

    Never used usb mini a or micro ab, but used micro usb for a ton of phones and headphones and mini b for a speaker which battery was too small and wouldn’t fit. I still use usb a (duh) and usb b for my new printer.

    As for audio, I only used microphone and line out, line in was that mystery port I never used, never had subwoofers so no subwoofer port, idk what right to left is, I’m not an audio nerd, same with s/pdif

    No FireWire sadly as I didn’t own a Mac or a pc that had one.

    I use all iec power connectors for my pcs, laptop chargers and ps4.

    I currently use displayport for my dell monitor. No esata or minidp. Only used the cardbus port for an usb hub on an old dell laptop that didn’t have usb 2.0 and the usb hub didn’t work (I’m starting to think I’m cursed)

  31. pauvre10m

    at work I tend to crave to get serial port on my laptop ! these usb to serial adapter is one more cable to carry on 😉

  32. themcsame

    Image lists USB 3.0 like USB-IF didn’t snort a line and go completely whacko with a USB 3.0 update that became USB 3.1 which then ended up as USB 3.1 Gen 1 that then became USB 3.2 Gen 1×1, and added Gen 1×2 and Gen 2×2… With USB 3.1 Gen 2 becoming USB 3.2 Gen 2×1

  39. Taira_Mai

    Every VGA port – the screw on one side can be taken off, is already loose or is outright missing. The other side was tightened by Hercules himself and cannot be moved.

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