Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
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I have the metal ‘polenta spoon’ that my great grandparents brought to the US from Italy in 1896. I don’t use it, but it sits in the utensil bin by my stove. No idea how old it is or why it was deemed important enough to bring on a boat.
Until last year I used a ski coat from 1940 as my winter coat
What happened last year? 😳
fascion Nazis took it.
I have a refrigerator from around 1988 or 1989 that still works perfectly. Around 1999, it stopped working, so we bought a new one. We didn’t throw away the old fridge because we used it to store plates and cutlery, but we were sure that it was completely broken. Then, last year, a technician saw it and told us that only a component needed to be replaced for it to work again. Lo and behold, the damn thing was revived, and after a two-decade slumber it worked again as if no time had passed.
My Laptop from 2009 still works like a charm
You have me beat by a bit if you’re still daily driving it. OS support is getting hard, though.
Wirth’s law seems to have passed Moore’s law sometime around 2010. Or maybe we just ran out of non-gaming problems that are computationally hard. Either way, hardware from the time that isn’t physically broken is still quite usable, if you’ve escaped from the proprietary software treadmill.
What operating system?
Arch with XFCE
I’m in my 40s now, so I guess my body.
Most of it is a decade old at best ^^
sauce: https://book.bionumbers.org/how-quickly-do-different-cells-in-the-body-replace-themselves/
Apparently we are just the brain and eyeballs(and female gonads) piloting a meat sack of Theseus.
I’m guessing metabolism causes the matter in a brain cell to turn over pretty often, even, and new neurons continue to grow throughout your life. Tooth enamel is the only part I know you can be reasonably sure is the same atoms as it’s always been. Eye lenses might have some chemically durable portion, I suppose.
A person is like a river. Always the same thing, but always changing.
Meat sack of Theseus is an excellent band name
And some rat taste buds!
No wonder I love eating cheese and solving mazes so much!
lol this is excellent, bravo ^^
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Hmm, probably my weightlifting gloves. I’ve used them at least five times a week for ten years, but they are starting to fall apart.
Still a great buy for $15.00.
I have several vintage film cameras I use pretty often, oldest are probably my Nikon F or Leica M3 from the late 50s.
- My house was built in 1960
- My car was made in 1974 (A land rover series 3)
- I go to sleep listening to podcasts on a Sansa MP3 player from 2000 that I’ve used every night since.
- My body, issued in 1971.
I have clothes that are more or less 20 years old. Kitchen utensils that are 25 years old. But I think my body is the oldest thing I have that still works, more or less.
I was going to say clothes as well. I haven’t really changed shape much in the last 15yrs. So if it’s still in one piece, I still wear it.
Same. I’d like to find a replacement for the left foot (or at least the left big toe) but I can’t find any, anywhere.
My brain (since 1990), or at least I have been trying.
I have 2 jumpers that date back to 2009ish. Have not found suitable replacements for them sadly.
Genuine question , in this context what is a jumper?
Clothing
After reading a bunch of comments about people using electronics in this post, I had initially pictured “jumpers” as either “jumper cables”, the things people use to boost car batteries with, or small plastic coated pieces of metal or wires that can be placed over exposed pins on circuit boards to connect them (e.g to enable some behaviour). Generally I’d only assume this meaning in a discussion about electronics, though.
(I’m not the person that you replied to, and I knew that jumper means sweater or jacket or something in British (and possibly Australian?) English.)
And now that I think about it, most of my clothing gets worn after a few years, at least on the elbows.
About 15 years go I had to go somewhere that was much much colder than I anticipated, so we made an emergency drive to the closest town, and I bought the warmest jacket they had. It was like $300, but I never regretted it. Its the most practical, comfy, jacket ive ever owned and doesn’t look half bad - even has a hoody you can clip on and off. Got me through snow as well, but its not water proof.
Love that jacket.
My body. Had it all my life and I’m planning on using it until I die. Or until I can put my consciousness in a robot body if that becomes possible first.
I’ve got this little blue plastic cup I’ve had for almost 30 years. Use it for my toothbrush. Got it when I was a kid and it’s the only toothbrush holder I’ve ever had since.
I have balls of yarn, knitting needles, and crochet hooks from the 60s and 70s. Also, most of my home appliances, like fridge, tv, washing machine, and microwave/oven, are about 20 years old and working perfectly.
