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 use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
Fire.
Fire and rocks, the OG of technology.
Bicycle
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
Fire is pretty great and I use it all the time.
I’m pretty sure I got a lever around here somewhere
The wheel, rope, fire.
Spoons, which predate forks, fire, and wheels by about two million years.
I bought a manual scale, because all the electric ones turn off automatically before i get a chance look how much it actually weighs and there is no easy way to subtract the weight of the plate. Also no super specific small batteries bs. Edit: it can do Tara but if it shuts itself off while i was measuring flour, now i have flour on a plate. How do i know how much the flour weighs minus the plate? That’s my problem.
As physical tech:
- we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.
As digital tech:
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Comma Separated Values as a notation predates computers. Then CSV has been used as a computer file format at least since one of the Fortran variants added support in 1972.
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The implementation has changed as filesystems evolve but the basic directory/file model of data storage and the associated tools ls/dir, cd, rm/del have been around a while.
lshas been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back tolistfon CTSS in 1961.
Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.
we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.
Aren’t those just standard door knobs? Like which others are there (besides maybe smarthome/electronic stuff, but that’s not really widespread esp. for home use)?
RSS is the first app I would install on new devices if they didn’t automatically migrate all my apps and data for me. That there are people who know about RSS and don’t use it surprises me, somewhat.
Do you pay for yours, or what? I tried to get into RSS, but I wasn’t in the mood to pay for it.
I like Feeder as a free Android option
GNU Emacs, from the 1980s
I’m definitely younger than you because emacs sucks
Haha I wouldn’t be so sure about that, I just happen to like these hipster tech. In any case, Emacs is an acquired taste so age doesn’t matter that much.
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.