???? – 1999retired
AlltheWeb
“It indexed the web before Google told it to; rest easy, FAST friend.”
“Daisy-chained with dignity, no hub required, still plugged in somewhere inside.”
Introduced on the Apple IIGS in 1986, Apple Desktop Bus was Apple's way of connecting low-cost peripherals like keyboards and mice in a simple daisy chain — no hubs, no fuss. It spread quickly to later Macintosh models and even some NeXT machines, becoming the quiet connective tissue between you and your Mac.
By the late 1990s, USB had arrived and ADB stepped aside, much as PS/2 did in the PC world. The last external port appeared on an Apple product in 1999, though ADB lived on quietly as an internal bus on some Mac models into the 2000s. A tidy retirement for a tidy bus.
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“It indexed the web before Google told it to; rest easy, FAST friend.”
“The only cigarette that told the truth - honesty, apparently, doesn't sell.”
“One little word, one big mystery — it never explained itself, and that was the point.”