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 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.
Shoes.
Beer!
Various styles of loincloth and several different clubs
I own a balance scale, I was getting sick of dying batteries in modern ones
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 the Wright Brothers by 120 years.
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
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
These seemed like the obvious answers at first, but then I realized I don’t actually use either one on a regular basis (I walk to work and cook on an induction stove). So in my case it’s probably the lever.
Where your stick? Me have good stick. Very pointy.
Me use stick make fire. Need new stick hold meat on fire. Where you find good stick?
Bush stick, bush burn, bush taste a little acidic, wrong bush.
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.
I occasionally harness fire. Does that count?
Only if you use a flint and tinder. Alternatively, finding and keeping a lightning started fire alive is acceptable.
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.
Blanket. I’m believe that technology was invented before clothes or even fire.
Do you mean oldest as in invented the longest time ago or oldest as in that specific technological artefact that i use is the oldest one i have?
For the first one i guess cooking?
For the second one its definitely my microwave oven, made in 1991.I suppose SSH has been around for ages, I use that
I have a grandfather clock I inherited. It’s about 100 years old.
Me too! I just haven’t remembered to wind it in five years.
If you start, oil it first. Disuse is lethal on old clocks
