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GNU Emacs, from the 1980s

RSS feeds are so nice. I'm still frustrated that Facebook moved away from an in-order timeline. (Or would be if I used it for anything other than family chats)

An ordered list of things you haven't seen yet on instead of a mostly random list from everywhere. Amazing.

A spade or a shovel or something??

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.

1990s solar powered calculator.

I hope they dig one up in 10000 years and it still works.

A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.

SQL.

Well, I have a private aircraft first designed in 1783...

I still use a sony walkman to listen to music on cassette tape. Unlike my phone, it has a headphone jack. It's also nice being able to physically own music in such a compact form factor. It helps that the artists I listen to are starting to put their albums on tape as well.

Probably the FM radio.

Or the fridge or the light bulb.

I have a Kindle from 2011 that's still in perfect condition and gets daily use. Every now and then I'm tempted to get a newer eReader but I can't come up with a single reason to actually do it.

My wife just dug an old iPod that must be from ~2008 from some box in the basement so she can listen to music at work all day without killing the battery on her phone.

Black powder guns. What a total pain in the ass. But they're damned fun when they go bang.

Winamp

Maybe my DS Lite? It's from 18 years ago and I still kinda like the form factor. Honorable mentions to my DSi and DSi XL. They all have working batteries still too, go figure!

winrar, i think

Zune, 2nd gen. Pretty much only on road trips since the battery only lasts about 10 minutes but as long as that squircle keeps working, the tunes keep flowing.

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…

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.

I still use emacs pretty frequently for coding. I forced myself to start with VSCode recently, and it was way bigger an improvement than I expected it to be, but being able to do text editing without an extended negotiation with the software being involved is still pretty nice sometimes.

Not my most used tools but I've got a few axes that are probably 50 to 100 years old

Holy crap. Gopher is old AF.

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.

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...

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

I occasionally harness fire. Does that count?