It a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden pop, a gruesome spill, or sometimes a burst of flames. And it was allegedly all due to one guy who didnt copy a stolen formula correctly. The capacitor plague of the early 2000s was real and fairly widespread among devices, even if the majority of those devices didnt go bad at the same time or even in the same year. The story of this widespread failure, passing between indu
