Was? This is not over, this is still happening, right now!

They used to be moderately common in the before times, like 2.5 inch IDE HDD times.

For added horror those often where Y cables, too.

Yeah, very funny giving it such a cutesy name so you drop your guard but once you learn what it is actually called you won’t be laughing anymore:

Japanese long-tailed bushtit

Wasn’t me

It also did happen in other fields in astronomy or genetics pretty early on.

Somebody once described her team as “Young, motivated, highly educated and otherwise basically unemployable”.

Guess it helps that sorting through myriads of stars or kernels of corn was often not seen as prestigious enough