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Back in the day, people had to cook a hard-boiled egg for a computer mouse

Damn those days when we had to hard-boil an egg for a computer mouse every week! Kids these days won't get it.

You see, back in the day, people had to cook a hard-boiled egg for a computer mouse every single week in order to scroll up and down that screen. Bored Panda contacted Aram Bartholl, a German artist working with the themes of surveillance, data privacy, technology, and the absurdity of digital lives, to find out what exactly the egg and computer mouse meme says about our society. “Of course, back in the day, one had to invest a lot of time to get a computer to work or just to connect to the internet.

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