Serial-port Memes

Nothing says "I've seen some things" quite like remembering when computer mice had actual balls inside them. That serial port connector screams late 90s/early 2000s vibes when you had to clean mouse gunk off those little rollers inside because your cursor started moving like it had a mind of its own. The ball would collect desk debris like a tiny Roomba, and you'd have to pop open the bottom panel to clean it out every few weeks. Gen Z devs will never know the struggle of trying to explain to your boss why you're sitting at your desk playing with mouse balls during work hours. Those were the days when "plug and play" was more of a suggestion than a promise, and you needed to install drivers from a CD-ROM that came in a box the size of a textbook.

Nothing screams "I've seen some things" quite like recognizing every single USB port in this lineup. USB-C? Baby stuff. USB 3.0? Still in diapers. USB 2.0? Getting respectable. But PS/2 and serial ports? ANCIENT RELICS FROM THE BEFORE TIMES. The progression here is absolutely BRUTAL. You start fresh-faced and innocent with your sleek modern laptop, then gradually age into a weathered tech veteran who remembers when keyboards had round purple plugs and mice had green ones. And don't even get me started on that serial port at the bottom—if you've ever had to configure a router using one of those bad boys, you've earned your gray hairs. The skeleton at the end? That's everyone who had to deal with IRQ conflicts and COM port assignments. They didn't make it out alive.