TIL When Bill Gates first showed off Windows 98's ability to use Universal Serial Bus (USB) to connect a scanner while the computer was still running, something revolutionary at the time, the computer crashed.He joked, "That's why we're not shipping it yet."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/82951.stm



Submitted February 19, 2015 at 07:52AM by koghrun http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wdvwo/til_when_bill_gates_first_showed_off_windows_98s/