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!
FTP
I suppose SSH has been around for ages, I use that
Yesterday I used an axe to chop firewood.
Fire.
Probably the FM radio.
Or the fridge or the light bulb.
A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.
Holy crap. Gopher is old AF.
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.
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
That’s real value right there.
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
Email. Pretty much the first network-related utility.
You need to specify whether you’re taking about digital or analog technology, or some other limit on the question, because i think you’re not looking for answers like “fire” or as another user replied “shoes”.
Winamp
What skin do you use, tho?
Great question and I’m happy to answer it:
Winamp Modern - NightVision
Can you tell me an easy way to get Winamp up and running on a modern computer? Man, I miss Winamp…that shit really whipped the llamas ass.
It’s not outdated until they come out with something else that really whips the llamas ass!
Teletext
I use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
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.
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
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.
