GNU Emacs, from the 1980s
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RSS feeds are so nice. I'm still frustrated that Facebook moved away from an in-order timeline. (Or would be if I used it for anything other than family chats)
An ordered list of things you haven't seen yet on instead of a mostly random list from everywhere. Amazing.
A spade or a shovel or something??
Yeah, I use a Jeep and a lawn mower that are both ~30 years old, but if it is the age of the technology and not the item, maybe fire or clothes... Wait, shelter has to be before those two.
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On special occasions I grind coffee beans with a small wooden frame coffee grinder my grandparents got as wedding present sometime in the 1930's. Made and gifted for the couple by the grooms brother.
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A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.
1990s solar powered calculator.
I hope they dig one up in 10000 years and it still works.
SQL.
Probably the FM radio.
Or the fridge or the light bulb.
Well, I have a private aircraft first designed in 1783...
Wat?
I'm a hot air balloon pilot. Manned hot air ballooning traces back to 1783 France, where Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes flew a balloon constructed by the Montgolfier brothers.
Hot air balloons were the first manned aircraft, beating manned gas balloons (hydrogen) by 10 days, and the Wright brothers by 120 years.
To be fair, modern hot air ballooning only goes back to Ed Yost in 1960, as it was a royal pain in the ass to heat an envelope before propane burners were invented. But the underlying technology (a big sack of hot air carrying people aloft) is 4 years older than the constitution.
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I have a Kindle from 2011 that's still in perfect condition and gets daily use. Every now and then I'm tempted to get a newer eReader but I can't come up with a single reason to actually do it.
My wife just dug an old iPod that must be from ~2008 from some box in the basement so she can listen to music at work all day without killing the battery on her phone.
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Black powder guns. What a total pain in the ass. But they're damned fun when they go bang.
I still use a sony walkman to listen to music on cassette tape. Unlike my phone, it has a headphone jack. It's also nice being able to physically own music in such a compact form factor. It helps that the artists I listen to are starting to put their albums on tape as well.
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Winamp
It's not outdated until they come out with something else that really whips the llamas ass!
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Maybe my DS Lite? It's from 18 years ago and I still kinda like the form factor. Honorable mentions to my DSi and DSi XL. They all have working batteries still too, go figure!
I still use emacs pretty frequently for coding. I forced myself to start with VSCode recently, and it was way bigger an improvement than I expected it to be, but being able to do text editing without an extended negotiation with the software being involved is still pretty nice sometimes.
I drive a 20 year old car and my main phone is a dumbphone made in 2017. I also use that to play 20 year old mp3s.
I still occasionally use the bread maker my family got as a gift about 30 years ago.
Not my most used tools but I've got a few axes that are probably 50 to 100 years old
Zune, 2nd gen. Pretty much only on road trips since the battery only lasts about 10 minutes but as long as that squircle keeps working, the tunes keep flowing.
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I have a “data transcription machine” which is meant to pull data off of old media. It has:
- 3½″+5¼″ combo floppy drive
- IDE hot swap cage
- Zip 250 IDE drive
- Jaz 2Gb SCSI drive
- Internal 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI controllers
Let’s just say that I have enough devices cross my bench that SpinRite 6 gets a monthly workout on some piece of old storage tech or another. Not everything is recoverable, but…
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Clothing probaby. Admittedly, it's a bit more advanced than simple animal furs. I also have a knife, but again, probably a touch better than a sharpened piece of flint...
I still have a monitor on my main setup that uses DVI because I'm too cheap to upgrade.
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I love artificial lights, without them interior lighting would be hard af with candles
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