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 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
Agriculture
my iPod Touch 4 that currently works as a whatever i want information displayer. I’ve previously made it display CPU/GPU temps and RAM usage percentage as a graph, but now it pretty much is a terminal command history log displayer.
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.
Oh cool. I somehow completely forgot about balloons in general, lol. Thanks for the history!
A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.
I ude Emacs as my peferred text editor.
CRT TV
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.
I have a 10 megabit ethernet hub (not switch) that I still use in my homelab. It’s just a super easy way to throttle devices and helpful for diagnosing network issues.
i thought i was the only one. i use one occasionally to keep downloads (ahem, updates) or streaming from sucking the internet connection dry… so i have some left for more important things, like doom scrolling and games. other times (or when the hub’s being used elsewhere) i just manually configure the os (in windows, ‘speed and duplex’ via device manager) to use a slower connection on the lan port. either method comes in handy here where the internet speeds range from “kinda sucks” to “at least it’s faster than dialup”
speed and duplex’ via device manager
Oh yes, I’ve been doing that as well. I’ve trolled myself by forgetting and wondering why everything sucks. Haha
Glad to hear another person does the same. I too wondered if I was alone.
For a computer, I recently learned there are mod kits for the game boy, so i installed a backlit screen on mine. I use rechargeable batteries with it.
Bicycle
My penis is pretty old at this point…
Less than half a century, you youngling
I’m only as old as I feel and me and my wrinkled-ass dick feel pretty old
Black powder guns. What a total pain in the ass. But they’re damned fun when they go bang.
SQL.
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
