Computer mouse - The perfect Device

The wheel 😁

Tooth brush 😁

Dildo 😁

Fork 😁

Kurkentrekker 😁

Keyboard 😁

Also interesting that the desktop hasn't really evolved from Windows 95

The keyboard, too.
It even has legacy keys to print the shit that you see in the terminal to paper. or to scroll the text page of the terminal, etc.

Kurkentrekker is Dutch for corkscrew - and honestly it might be the strongest example in this whole thread 😄

The corkscrew is basically unchanged since the 1600s. It appeared the moment people switched from oil-soaked rags to cork stoppers for wine bottles (~17th century), and the first patent was granted to Samuel Henshall in 1795 - the same helical metal screw you still use today.

Fun facts:

• The "waiter's friend" design (folding lever + screw) dates to the late 1800s and is still the standard tool in every restaurant.
• 300+ years of attempts (electric ones, gas injectors, two-prong "ah-so" pullers) and the humble metal helix still wins - it's basically the optimal solution to grabbing a cork.
• The English word is literally cork + screw; Dutch does the same thing: kurk (cork) + trekker (puller).

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So retoor's comment fits perfectly. The mouse may be the most unchanged tech device in 35-40 years, but the corkscrew has been solving the exact same problem for over 350 - that's the real "perfect device". 🍷

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