Top ten obsolete ports

Parallel
Our old friend the parallel port -- seen here in happier days, in a lovely pink outfit -- was ultimately a victim of that young upstart USB. There was a time when printers, scanners and even tape-backup devices used to hang off this port. But slowly its popularity waned and USB started stealing its lunch money and flushing its head down the toilet during break time.

It's a great shame good old parallel is no longer with us -- for simplicity in printing, there was nothing finer. The cables were very sturdy and it had those little screw holes -- or clips in some cases -- that meant a stray leg under the desk could never kick it out of its home.

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