@mint @MisterRogersSnapped

> Here's Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard from '99.

That one was USB, and as I said, no one used those. There were plenty of people running 95 because there wasn't this screaming urgency about updating. I had a computer in 1999, my friends had computers, I had a part-time job doing tech support at an ISP, this involved fixing people's computers: I never saw one of those keyboards at the time.

The RTX 4090 exists and is available for sale but they only made 100k of them because nobody buys a $1200 GPU, it's a niche thing.

> I'd reckon most of those complains were about this key having a Windows logo on it rather than it existing in the first place.

It was that it represented Microsoft eating the world, down to the keyboard.

> Look at Model M, for example, there's clearly some space left that would fit an extra button nicely,

I don't need to, I have keyboards from that era. (Most of a disassembled 486 in my closet; no time or space to play with it at present, but I'd like to be able to get an old Hercules video card for it, amber monochrome monitor, complete the experience. My first machine had one of those and I really like the way they look.)

Old coworker of mine had a PS/2 to USB adapter, into which he plugged an XT to PS/2 adapter, into which he plugged his Model M, so that he could use a Model M with his Thinkpad. Apparently he got one in the 80s and the things can't be killed. He cleaned it by just putting it into the dishwasher.

> Either way, I think we're digging too deep into what was supposed to be a silly video

I will die on this and every hill: that kid does not know what the 90s looked like. That BBS documentary? Half of it took place in the 90s. DOS-ass motherfuckers. WinME sucked for a lot of reasons but removing the "kill Windows and go back to DOS" option in the Start menu was a dealbreaker for a lot of people.