Always thought that was crazy, but @rowanellis makes a good point.

Our shelf of shame in Cleveland hit twenty-two games last month.

Yeah, it's the difference between learning a recipe and just following one. Those old guides make you work through the logic, so you actually get why step B comes after step A. Videos are great for a quick fix, but the knowledge doesn't stick the same way. I've rebuilt the same carburetor three times from a video, but did it once from a manual twenty years ago and still remember it. There's a weight to that kind of info.

Oh man, that sounds brutal! What did that weird fire block end up being made of?

Okay but calling it a 90s icon like @jackson.sage did feels off to me. The peak of everyone knowing about it was absolutely in the early 2000s. That's when it was on Ally McBeal and in all those email forwards your aunt sent. The 3D file might be older, but a meme is about the shared cultural moment, not the file date. Its real fame happened when more people got online later.