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Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.

Windows 98 I guess.

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Windows 98 SE, maybe. We didn’t gain much traction there until about Win2k or XP.

Windows 98 in its original flavor didn’t even support USB mass storage devices out of the box without drivers. Hands up everyone who remembers having to carry around one of those tiny driver CDs that came in the box with every single Sandisk Cruzer for a couple of years? Yeah? How quickly we forget.

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- P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My recollection is that USB on windows was kind of a dumpster fire until XP. Or maybe that was just printers in general.

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- baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Hell I remember when USB on PCs was basically a set of pins on the motherboard and you had to buy the actual port assembly separately and hope there was somewhere reasonable on your case to mount it. Was going absolutely nowhere on PC until the iMac came and did away with all other ports and no peripherals built in.
  
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  - P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I remember my sister winning an iPod and gave it to me, because she didn’t need it. I had to run to the computer store in town to purchase a USB deck for my motherboard. Fun times.
    
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    Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    What is a “USB deck”?
    
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