# Who invented USB?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 6, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374 "2001-02-06T17:49:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![bladeohlsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bladeohlsson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bladeohlsson)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374/1 "2001-02-06T17:49:41Z")

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I don’t mean Intel. Who was the person who first thought of it?

blade

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374/2 "2001-02-06T18:06:22Z")

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Here’s a quote:

USB Implementers Forum, Inc. is a non-profit corporation founded by the group of companies that developed the Universal Serial Bus specification.

The USB-IF, Inc. Board of Directors is composed of the following companies and their designated representative Directors:

Compaq Computer Corporation- Ken Stufflebeam  
Hewlett-Packard Company- Ed Beeman  
Intel Corporation- Jason Ziller  
Lucent Technologies- Kevin Lynch  
Microsoft Corporation- Brad Carpenter  
NEC Corporation- Takahiro Tokuume  
Philips – Chris Vandenbulcke

from this [http://www.usb.org/info.html](http://www.usb.org/info.html) website

Hope it helps.

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**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374/3 "2001-02-06T18:06:53Z")

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You might learn more at [http://www.usb.org/info.html](http://www.usb.org/info.html)

to quote the site

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> …the group of companies that developed the Universal Serial Bus specification.

It doesn’t say WHO invented it but as is usual with many new computer technologies, there is a group of people working together to make it such. Then the IEEE standards come in to ensure the technology is standardized. [http://www.ieee.org](http://www.ieee.org) .

So to kind of answer you, Intel wasn’t the only one involved in the process.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374/4 "2001-02-06T18:10:14Z")

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My first simul-post!

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**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-usb/53374/5 "2001-02-06T18:19:55Z")

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It’s called “Stereo” 😉