Floppies, CDs, DVDs, PCMCIA cards, modems, CGA cards, MFM controllers, mechanical mice, ISA bus, parallel port, internal combustion engine... Things I used a lot. But do not miss at all. Good riddance.
Oh, and the once or twice a month you had to clean your mice balls because to much crust was building up inside them.
As many complaints as I have about wireless and bluetooth they are still far more reliable than most of that 80s-start of 2000 stuff unless it was eye wateringly expensive equipment.
I'd used floppies for years before and they were probably all half duff but I'd never noticed.
Well, at least the packets got forwarded eventually.
I once bought an ex undercover police vehicle that came with a folder that somehow had been forgotten under the passenger seat. Contents: a bunch of (paper) files, an identikit and a manual on how to take fingerprints.
I think you had the better excuse.
To me it always felt like a mouse with a clean ball was more responsive and accurate than a laser mouse. Especially in competitive gaming in the early 2000s. Not sure if that was just imagined on my part though. Part of me still thinks it's better. There's just something about the mechanical nature of the ball mouse. It felt like a precision instrument that had be cared for. A laser mouse in comparison has always been a bit gimmicky. Even though technically a modern laser mouse surely has way higher sample rates.