Status Symbols: Microsoft IntelliMouse

It’s hard to overestimate the importance the mouse has had on computing. It allowed for a shift from conceptual, text-based computing to tangible, graphics-based computing. Not only is the mouse vital to modern computers, but it’s also remained relatively the same since its inception: you move, a cursor moves on screen; you click, something happens; you right click, something else happens.

Except for one major tweak: the scroll wheel.