Mice without software
Can Kelo and his friends played every evening, but none of them had a branded mouse or keyboard. They played with cheap gear from the supermarket, and none of it came with software. To give a button another job they downloaded whatever they could find online: some of it was full of ads, some set off virus warnings, and almost none of it did what they wanted. The first question was asked back then: why is something this simple this hard?