Daisy chain
Wiring peripherals in a chain — each device has one port in and one port out, and the cable wanders from box to box instead of everything running to the computer.
The name comes from the flower garland: devices threaded onto each other like daisies on a string. SCSI was the textbook case — up to seven devices on one chain, with the notorious requirement of a terminator at the end. A forgotten or doubled terminator produced failures so capricious that SCSI troubleshooting earned a reputation as black magic. MIDI chains through the THRU port, which passes the incoming signal untouched to the next instrument.
USB chose the opposite — star topology with hubs — but the chain returned in modern dress: Thunderbolt allows up to six devices in a row, and DisplayPort chains monitors via MST. The advantage is the same as in the eighties: one cable per desk instead of a bundle.