Published Apr 29, 2026, 11:01 AM EDT I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at  adam@xda-developers.com , on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE , on Instagram as adamc.99 , or u/AdamConwayIE on Reddit. If you used a Mac in the late 1990s or early 2000s, chances are you plugged something into your computer with a FireWire cable at some point. The port looked nothing like the USB connectors most people were already used to: a chunky, keyed shape that only went in one way, but easy to orient once you knew what you were looking at.…