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!
I got a rock I use for smashin sometimes.
I use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
A pencil.
Knives.
I own a balance scale, I was getting sick of dying batteries in modern ones
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
That’s real value right there.
Bicycle
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…
As physical tech:
- we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.
As digital tech:
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Comma Separated Values as a notation predates computers. Then CSV has been used as a computer file format at least since one of the Fortran variants added support in 1972.
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The implementation has changed as filesystems evolve but the basic directory/file model of data storage and the associated tools ls/dir, cd, rm/del have been around a while.
lshas been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back tolistfon CTSS in 1961.
Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.
we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.
Aren’t those just standard door knobs? Like which others are there (besides maybe smarthome/electronic stuff, but that’s not really widespread esp. for home use)?
The wheel, rope, fire.
I ude Emacs as my peferred text editor.
I’m pretty sure I got a lever around here somewhere
I eat bread, I drink beer too. Those technologies are both around 40k years old iirc. In terms of computing, probably a calendar, time, or a GBA depending on your definition of computing
IPv4? Email? Gas fireplace?
I guess if you want a real answer it’s probably the terminal? I prefer terminal over GUI generally speaking.
Fire.
Fire and rocks, the OG of technology.
Fire isn’t technology any more than water and electricity are. The tools to create or utilize it are the technology part. But since I don’t use a firebowv or flint striker routinely, it’s the wheel for me, baby.
The wheel.
