Comment by virtualritz

When I lived in Adelaide, Australia 2006 or 2007, flexible-neck LED lamps that you plugged into an USB port to have light on your keyboard (backlit keyboards were not the norm on laptops) were a novelty item.

People simply didn't /know/ about them/that they existed at all.

I went to a computer/electronics shop in town and asked for them.

The guy told me: "We don't stock them because people don't ask for them."