Some of my coworkers were talking about using RSS to read blogs, which made some of the younger folks in our team ask what it is and why we keep using it.
Some still use iPods to avoid subscriptions and streaming services, my favorite was one of our sysadmins who showed me Gopher.
I’m curious about others though, thanks!
If we’re talking about technology that is no longer widely used, it’s probably my old HP48SX from the early 90s. Still use it sometimes as a desk calculator, though I have an HP48GX emulator app on my phone as well. Gotta have my RPN.
Beer!
I often use the position of the sun to figure out what direction I’m going.
Yeah that’s pretty damn old tech man
Technique yes, technology I would question.
I still occasionally use the bread maker my family got as a gift about 30 years ago.
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…
Bet it sounds awesome
Yesterday I used an axe to chop firewood.
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.
My brother bought me a coffee grinder for Christmas last year. Before that i was using a mortar and pestle
Shoes.
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.
Rtf
A pencil.
Knives.
I have a grandfather clock I inherited. It’s about 100 years old.
Me too! I just haven’t remembered to wind it in five years.
If you start, oil it first. Disuse is lethal on old clocks
That old oil will turn into pretty much sand. Sand in place of oil does some fun things to the brass pivots.
Usenet and IRC maybe.
awk
grep
sed
and lots of other individual programs written long before I was bornThe domain name system
The web
email
RSSwired everything
It would actually be easier to list the things I use that wouldn’t be considered old, as those are the exceptions.
I still use clippers bought in 2015
