Not really relevant. Ethernet needs crossover because it has dedicated transmit/receive pairs, but USB 1.x/2.0 uses a single wire pair for both tx & rx. Ethern

Not really relevant. Ethernet needs crossover because it has dedicated transmit/receive pairs, but USB 1.x/2.0 uses a single wire pair for both tx & rx. Ethernet crossover is pretty much identical to serial null modem cables, and those were around for a few decades by then. USB "crossover" of the single differential wire pair would be an inversion of 0 and 1. Pretty trivial to do once you figure out a way to communicate crossover or not.