I'm old enough to remember when USB was promoted as the end of cable madness :). The idea was that you would have one cable from your computer, and all devices

I'm old enough to remember when USB was promoted as the end of cable madness :). The idea was that you would have one cable from your computer, and all devices would be chained. Life would be so simple. Instead we have several USB cables, plus HDMI and DP, and lightning, and probably some I've forgotten. Thankfully we lost the enormous parallel ports. Although many EU televisions still use something equally bulky.