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Last time I tried bard it told me about a time in the early 2000s when computers had spoon slots to store your spoon
Where else would you put your spoon?
In the coffee cup in the coffee cup holder obviously
Damn, if that's for coffee cups, where does my beer go? In the CD burner?
Why would you want burnt beer?
Have you tried it? Makes the Guinness even more smokey. Also good for IPA
I grew up in the era of analogue spoon slots for storing all spoon like utensils. It was a simpler time.
Beside your poop knife, obviously.
LAN events often had food and a good host would serve food that doesn't cause greasy fingers. It was common in the early 90s to have chili while using the Internet, back when it was called 'the world wide web' by very serious news anchors. (There was even a Futurama joke about chili on the screen after Scruffy was eating while browsing porn!)
Spoon slots fit in the 5 1/4 slot and had a manual ejecting tray. It was exciting to see cup holders get automatic doors and I was waiting for spoon slots to get some sweet upgrades but they faded into obscurity before the internet took off and no one seems to remember. Or worse, the say that it never happened. Like I would forget my favorite part of PC gaming!
Bard was only wrong about the year though. Spoons disappeared as finger foods took over gaming. It was fun while that weird little moment in history lasted.
Actual old person here: the above is all made up.
The slots were for sporks.