USB Cable

USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, is an industry standard developed in
the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications
protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply
between computers and electronic devices.It is currently developed
by the USB Implementers Forum.

USB was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals
(including keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, printers, portable
media players, disk drives and network adapters) to personal computers,
both to communicate and to supply electric power.

USB has effectively replaced a variety of earlier
interfaces, such as parallel ports, as well as separate power chargers
for portable devices.