My brand-new Voodoo graphics card in its shiny package was the only thing I took with me as a teenager when I was leaving the flat in a hurry after the big earthquake in 1999[0]. I remember noticing the missing silhouettes of distant buildings with some fires burning behind where they used to stand and thinking, oh boy we surely won't have electricity soon.
You tend to have different priorities in those ages, I guess.
It's a dark memory, sure, but probably the packaging somehow made me get attached to a "stupid computer part" (not my words) and that's interesting.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake