How USB happened

USB has been with us for 26 years. At the time, the technology's co-developer Ajay Bhatt thought it would just be a "[one-off] $40 million opportunity" for Intel. And without his persistence, it wouldn't have happened at all. From IEEE Spectrum:

In the early 1990s, Bhatt told his boss about his idea of developing a universal "plug -and-play" communication system—something the user didn't need to adjust.