Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.

I think things like these have just become harder to find. There are some search engines which try to bring the "old" internet back to life like Marginalia Search.

https://wiby.org/

Also see:

https://kagi.com/smallweb

https://cloudhiker.net

https://randomdailyurls.com

So true... Generally speaking, quality of anything from a reputable brand was taken as granted just a couple decades ago... Now, every time I buy something there's some detail showing how the people in charge wanted to save a few cents making it.

However...

This was going nowhere, and, after about half an hour of struggle, I asked my mum which way the mouse was in her hand. She had the 'tail' coming out the back, which made sense to her.

Before working this out I was wondering if the light from the window was making it through the flimsy plastic of the mouse, to prevent the sensors from working. Or maybe something else was plugged in, robbing the MS-DOS PC of enough interrupts. Or maybe the ball was clogged with cat hairs.

We got there in the end, however, it was a lesson in not jumping to conclusions. I had just been temporarily defeated by my mother's lack of computer literacy.