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Image: Gizmodo\/Shutterstock (Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nGizmodo is 20 years old! to celebrate the anniversary, <\/em>we’re looking back<\/em><\/span> at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nGlance at your laptop and you might see a single USB-C cable. The industry is consolidating to a universal interface used for data transfer, display, power delivery, and more. It hasn’t always been that way. Dozens of connectors and standards have come and gone over the past few decades, leaving behind a jumbled mess of wires and accompanying fondness of old devices that now exist only in our memories. On Gizmodo’s 20th anniversary, we dump out our bag of cables in remembrance of those that have come and gone.<\/p>\n