I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006
Up until 1997 rape within a marriage wasn’t defined as a crime in Germany. Because it was specifically defined as an act outside of marriage. Our (probably) next chancellor Friedrich Merz voted against the bill that finally made it a crime!
Some women in Swiss were only allowed to vote in 1984.
Cleopatra is closer to us than she was from the great pyramid construction.
It helps to remember that Cleopatra was both from a completely different incarnation of Egypt and that she was the last independent pharaoh before Egypt became a Roman province.
Lexus sold cars with cassette players until 2010
That isn’t as crazy as it may seem. My main audio source well after graduation which was 2005, was a portable cd player that could play cd’s burned with compressed mp3 libraries and connected to the car’s stereo system via aux to cassette adapter.
Idk about the portable cd player with mp3 library being common but most blunt cruises in those days were done in vehicles using portable cd player with cassette adapter. I know this is super anecdotal and specifically about the car owner class that isn’t buying new Lexus’ but I still wanted to point out the cassette deck saw extended use long after people stopped listening to actual cassettes.
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Omg fuckin yes. It was so awesome. It was during a brief period when mp3 hit the stage but before ipod was God, there were mp3 players that would just pop up like a memory stick in windows and you could limewire whatever you wanted for music onto the players.
IDK if the software was Sony but the player was and you could put your whole limewire library in a small single CD per page zip up binder things. The mp3 saved on the cd was nothing special. The special was no audio players could play mp3 files at that time. Exceptions being: gaming consoles, pc’s and maybe your surround sound if it was new. Cars were still nobs and buttons.
My 2006 RX factory radio unit had cassette and cd decks. Sometime around 2012, I remember feeling like I had unlocked a secret backdoor because an audiobook that I wanted from the library had a crazy long waitlist for the cd edition. I hadnt used cassettes in decades, but somehow I had the idea to check to see if they offered that audiobook on cassette. They did! And it was available to check out immediately!
I replaced the radio in that car shortly after that because I needed a bluetooth connection and handsfree capability.
Jim Crow.
The south still has similar voting restrictions, it’s just the supreme court stopped caring and said ‘sure, whatevs’.
Continuing off OP’s list, the last PS3 game was released in 2020
Heck, people are still producing new games for the Commodore 64.
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The most recent commercial game using the modified 2.5D Doom engine, was released in May 2024 on Steam. It is called Selaco.
Feudalism as a form of government didn’t end in Europe until 2008 when the Island of Sark converted over to representative democracy.
Juno is still around and still offers dialup internet plans. Earthlink was still offering dialup until last year.
Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.
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The iPod was discontinued in 2022. I’m guessing there’s already a lot of kids who have no idea where the term “podcast” comes from.
The Famicom Disk System, which uses a kind of floppy disk for the Japanese market NES, had kiosks where you could copy games onto disks. The last of those kiosks were removed in 2003 It overlapped the Game Cube.
Is the iTouch still around? I remember my beige got one and it was essentially an iPhone without sim card.
Adult content could still be accessed, so Apple were to bring out the iTouch kids.
Never happened. :/
Apple never made a product called iTouch. You’re thinking of a product called “iPod Touch”. It was the touchscreen version of the iPod (without the iconic clickwheel). The first one was essentially a slimmer iPhone 3G without a cellular modem.
I worked in an electronics repair store just after they came out. We replaced hundreds of broken screens on them. The sheer number of people who called them “iTouch” was surprising, considering Apple never called it that.
I’m old enough to remember when iPods first came out but somehow I didn’t realise podcast came from the word iPod. TIL!
Apple didn’t invent the concept of podcasts, but they sure popularized them. They used to be called syndicated audio, and were pretty niche. Then Apple added it as a feature of iTunes. The idea was that because your iPod didn’t have any wifi or data connection, you couldn’t listen to new content while out and about. So you would plug your iPod into your computer with iTunes to sync down all the latest content before you leave for the day. Then they needed feeds of new content to provide to the users, so lots of new episodicals were started, and Apple grouped them under the umbrella of “podcasts”.
Wasn’t it just not fancy rss?
Yeah, it was (and still is) a feature that was added to the RSS protocol.
Women’s suffrage was ratified in US constitution 1920. But probably not for much longer.
Western Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy (though the majority doesn’t realize it yet, and think the Americans only fucked themselves)
Despite anti-miscegenation laws being banned as a result of Loving v Virginia in 1967, support for interracial marriages only passed 50% in the mid 90’s.
Slavery. People always talk about slavery like it’s something that only existed in 19th century America as if it wasn’t happening right now everywhere.
Nixie tubes - those vacuum tubes that display a single digit or character on glowing wires - were commonplace in the 1950s and 60s but were superseded by LEDs. They’re still made in the Czech Republic, bought mostly by hobbyists to build retro gadgets. I have a few myself that I haven’t gotten around to using.
Weren’t they superceded by LCDs not LEDs? The whole big thing with Nixies was that you could display digits but if one filament burned out (which it relatively quickly did) the whole bulb was bad and even then you had to pump power into them and use these complicated plugs.
Enter LCDs, they take ages to burn in, you can run them off a coin battery for literal years, and they’re a dozen times cheaper to make.
Nixie tubes were replaced by the multi-segment LED displays for numbers for many of those use cases where the numerals needed to glow. Think the last four decades of clock radios, TV channel number displays after mechanical channel knobs but before they removed the bezel stuff and put it all on the screen itself, etc.
Tangentially related Technology Connections video: The Numitron: An obvious idea that wasn’t very bright
There’s a mod for Factorio that adds these in for use in our circuit spaghetti
Slavery being legal in the US.
Ooops, sorry, I forgot that it’s still perfectly legal in the US.
