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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!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Usenet and IRC maybe.

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I occasionally harness fire. Does that count?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I still have a monitor on my main setup that uses DVI because I'm too cheap to upgrade.

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My clock radio alarm is from the late 80's, I guess. It was my Dad's before and it still works fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I listen to radio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I love an automatic mechanical watch. Still use CDs. At work I occasionally need to use 3.5" floppy disks. Still read paper books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Lenovo Thinkpad X200t by your intended meaning. I don't know if my Meade ETX-60 is older... might be... I haven't checked date codes or anything, but I have several microprocessors and discrete logic chips for breadboarding. Probably, the oldest is a tossup between Z80, 6502, 8088, 6800, 68k, or some CD4000 series logic. Maybe a few of my 74xx chips are older. I have a little bench power supply that was made in the 50's somewhere in my closet. I have a Wander bike my family put in storage that is from the 40's or early 50's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I still use clippers bought in 2015

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Newspapers, online news is an echo chamber of personalized content

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A printer that is older than me, Samsung SCX-4216F. It supports fax, maybe I should set it up some time. A satellite receiver that supports only SD streams. Olympics are streamed from 2 channels and one of them does not have SD variant so we have to stream games on that channel from Internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's a few appliances that we refuse to let go. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. My wife loves our early 1970's General Electric range. It's got push button controls that are built into the range hood. That was actually a brilliant idea since it keeps the controls from getting all greasy and my little kids can't reach them.

Our old vacuum, a 1953 Kirby (which I've had for 25 years) has been semi-retired. Our house has a 1970's Kenmore central vac. Just put a new motor in it last year so it should be good to go for a while, hopefully.

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