Thanks for the explanation. Ironically this was the bit I didn’t know:
In modern times, USB keyboards are periodically actively polled instead.
I was thinking the implication was that some computer had faulty interrupt handling that would smash the status register or something.
Honestly I think I’m just too old to understand memes.
Same. Walk the dogs, ride my bike, that sort of thing.
I have to move back to a big city in a couple of months, and I am not looking forward to it at all.