Why your new laptop has almost no ports (and why that’s actually great)

Why your new laptop has almost no ports (and why that’s actually great) – howtogeek.com
The first computer my family owned was an 80286 IBM clone, and it had lots of ports, none of which looked the same. There was a big 5-pin DIN for the keyboard, a serial port, a parallel port, a game port for our joystick, and of course, the VGA port for the monitor.