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PCI-E: One of the longest enduring standards for desktop PCs?

What about USB? The first PC with USB that I owned was in 1997 (although that was a laptop, not a desktop), one year after the USB spec was released. Today, 20 years later, I have a PC with compatible USB sockets on it. It's looking quite likely that it will last another 20 years too.
 
Mr Evil said:
What about USB? The first PC with USB that I owned was in 1997 (although that was a laptop, not a desktop), one year after the USB spec was released. Today, 20 years later, I have a PC with compatible USB sockets on it. It's looking quite likely that it will last another 20 years too.
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True. Anyone know how long serial and parallel were 'current'?
 
Everything we use today is very old I guess, newer standards are only more modified older standards.
Not yet mentioned was a capacitive touchscreen that has been installed on couple of HP rigs in 1980s.
 
DVI has had a good run; it was designed in 1999 and is still in use.

How 'bout RJ45? Coaxial cable? Not exactly PC specific tech but modern coax dates back to 1936 or so.
 
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