Portable, computer-peripheral apparatus including a universal serial bus (USB) connector

A system including a server and a portable computer-peripheral apparatus comprising a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector, the portable computer-peripheral apparatus being able to communicate with a computer terminal such that, following connection to the computer terminal, the portable computer-peripheral apparatus initialises or presents itself as a human interface device (HID) keyboard and then sends to the computer terminal a first predefined sequence of key codes automatically without manual interaction;

• the first predefined sequence of key codes including keycodes complying with the HID keyboard standard protocol, wherein the first predefined sequence of key codes includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Unique Identifiers, such as a username and a password, wherein the portable computer-peripheral apparatus enables the computer terminal to communicate with the server that is associated with the URL, and wherein the server is configured to receive the Unique Identifiers from the computer terminal, and wherein the server is configured to process the Unique Identifiers using a server side script executable on the server, to provide customized content corresponding to the Unique Identifiers.