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The tragedy of FireWire, an elegy for a 2000-era cable that was sort of like BetaMax to USB’s VHS.

I have weirdly fond memories of FireWire. It was fast, sure, but it also felt good when you plugged it in. Like proper future-of-computing shit. But USB was good enough and that always wins.