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Even having a bump on the rubber moulding as part of the standard would have solved the problem.

• rzzzt 3y ago
  The USB symbol goes on top, IIRC. Edit: ninja'd by an enormous amount of people elsewhere in the thread, gah.
  • qup 3y ago
    This is not always true, and not all ports are horizontal anyway.
    • edgedetector 3y ago
      Isn't it part of the standard?
      • Talanes 3y ago
        In relation to the PCB, so if they're horizontally mounted onto the motherboard, you end up with vertical slots on the back of a standard tower.
      • askvictor 3y ago
        Yes. Does everyone follow the standard? No. Including big names that prefer to have their logo facing up.
  • ngcc_hk 3y ago
    Apple and many others need to be reverse always. There is no top.
  • Moru 3y ago
    Vertically aligned motherboards are hard to judge what "up" is. Usually up is where the expansion boards are plugged in. But not all computer users know how a computer looks inside.
  • denton-scratch 3y ago
    > The USB symbol goes on top, IIRC. For some values of "top"; that is, some device manufacturers install the socket upside-down.
  • Suppafly 3y ago
    It doesn't help if you've trying to do it totally blind, but the 2 open square holes go on top, once I figured that out I've never had any issues plugging them in correctly. The only one I have issues with is my keyboard because the pcb in the plug is black and the it's a little hard to tell which side is the open holes and which side is the black pcb.
• Smoosh 3y ago
  Heck, just making the plastic insert white instead of black (now sometimes blue, occasionally orange) would have helped.
  • noizejoy 3y ago
    Frequently (by convention) the colors on the USB ports have meaning (including white actually indicating USB 1.0): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colors+on+usb+ports https://duckduckgo.com/?q=colors+on+usb+ports