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!
Paper datewheel
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!
Lever. Suck on that wheel and fire people!
Improvised hammer. Get bonked, lever boy
Have you tried setting your lever on fire?
I’ve got a box with several levers and wheels that runs on fire.
What is it with fire heads wanting to shove fire in everything. Yes, fire has its uses, but c’mon
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 use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
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.
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
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.
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
Teletext
Fire.
Holy crap. Gopher is old AF.
winrar, i think
Do people really use this? Why?
winrar? just works.
it’s never failed, so I’ve never used an alternative.
The biggest question is did you pay for a license?
i only paid once, and not until a decade after i started using it, but i did at dinner point paid the whatever it was, although now i just use the free version again and the purchased version (which is identical) is long lost.
I use it because it usually costs money but somehow it’s been working free for me for decades!
There’s still 7zip or Peazip that does the same thing, but they are properly free (open source). Check them out.
Sorry I should have but an /s was totally kidding
Yesterday I used an axe to chop firewood.
A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.
