The serial and parallel ports are slow,have limited expandability and don't carry their own charge of electricity.these ports work fine for connecting Printers, Mice and keyboards to PC but all these device will perform better if connected to a USB port
The serial port and the parallel port were older than the USB, (and others). What I think will help you best is the link below.
parallel and serial port
yes
Usually serial. Parallel is almost completely gone, and serial is getting replaced by USB.
Parallel ports typically have 25 or 36 pin ports. Serial ports, by contrast, have only 9 pins. Both type of ports have two rows of pins.
Its Parallel and Serial
Serial ports only allow one device to send and one device to receive at a time, where a parallel port can send and receive data at the same time.
COM ports transfer data using a serial connection as opposed to a parallel connection.
Yes It Can
true.
give the difference between serial port and parallel port
RS-232 serial ports, Parallel ports, and PS2 mouse and keyboard ports. These days, all of these functions can be handled by Universal Serial Bus (USB ) connections.
Pretty much, yes. USB ports are smaller and more versatile, and can carry a limited amount of power. Serial and parallel ports are larger and more limited, and cannot be "daisy-chained" like USB devices usually can.