They used to be moderately common in the before times, like 2.5 inch IDE HDD times.

For added horror those often where Y cables, too.

Thanks to vtubers you can now also watch catgirls write Linux drivers for their audio interface, live!

This all could have been avoided with a Discworld-style Thieves Guild

I live in the countryside so there ain’t a lot…

Excluding ruins, 11XX. The exact dates aren’t really known

It also did happen in other fields in astronomy or genetics pretty early on.

Somebody once described her team as “Young, motivated, highly educated and otherwise basically unemployable”.

Guess it helps that sorting through myriads of stars or kernels of corn was often not seen as prestigious enough