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!
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”.
Love an analog clock
Fire is pretty great and I use it all the time.
Are you using bow drill or flint and steel?
Both. Why limit yourself?
Probably the FM radio.
Or the fridge or the light bulb.
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.
If we’re talking about technology that is no longer widely used, it’s probably my old HP48SX from the early 90s. Still use it sometimes as a desk calculator, though I have an HP48GX emulator app on my phone as well. Gotta have my RPN.
Fire
SQL.
Shoes.
I use a typewriter occasionally at work.
By choice, or?
I don’t have any issues with it. We keep a physical card file of our records and we type it for readability.
Im intrigued, what do you do for a job?
That’s hot
I still use a sony walkman to listen to music on cassette tape. Unlike my phone, it has a headphone jack. It’s also nice being able to physically own music in such a compact form factor. It helps that the artists I listen to are starting to put their albums on tape as well.
Back when you could actually record shit easily. Wanna record something now? Fuck you, impossible.
I’ve made playlists on Spotify and then ripped them to tape before, I made my girlfriend a mixtape a few months ago actually.
I ude Emacs as my peferred text editor.
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.
In computing? RS232 interfaces.
In general? Fire.
CRT TV
