I recall this short story I heard once about a man who had just bought a new computer. This was back in the early nineties, just as the web and e-mail and multimedia were starting to get big.
A tech support representative at a major computer manufacturer received a call from a very angry customer one afternoon.
“My cup holder just broke off,” complained the man on the other end of the phone.
“Your what? Your cup holder?” stammered the tech support guy. “In your car?”
“No, on my computer. I haven’t had this thing even a month and it’s already starting to break!”
“Was this a special order sir?”
“No! I just got my computer, pressed one of the button on the front, and this cup holder just slid out.”
At this point the tech support guy broke up laughing when he realized the man was using the CD-ROM tray as a coffee cup holder.
I’ve heard this as a joke most often, but the first time I heard it it was presented as fact, as a letter in one of the big computer magazines of the time.