Still working on most of the devices I've got that were made in the 80s/90s, meanwhile I have machines with USB ports less than a decade old where how you seat

Still working on most of the devices I've got that were made in the 80s/90s, meanwhile I have machines with USB ports less than a decade old where how you seat the cable matters or the port just outright doesn't work anymore. Some of that you can chalk up to survivor bias, but if this is a conversation, the main reason anybody can actually have it is that we're talking about a standard that was universal enough for long enough.