Illustration of a beige mechanical computer mouse being cleaned, with its tracking ball and retaining ring removed, and an AOLFOREVER watermark.

The cursor would start moving like it had somewhere else to be, so you’d flip the mouse over and take the ball out. Inside: three rollers wearing tiny sweaters made entirely of desk lint.

Scrape the gunk off, put it back together, and suddenly you were an IT professional. The repair bill was zero dollars and one deeply disgusting fingernail.

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