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
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
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.
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?
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
Spoons, which predate forks, fire, and wheels by about two million years.
“Ima need a citation on that 2 million years info.” — Chopsticks
Is fire even technology? It just exists in nature. 🤷🏻♂️
Its viewed as such.
The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
I guess that makes me a tinkerer.
arsonistinventor
Email. Pretty much the first network-related utility.
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 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)?
Aren’t those just standard door knobs?
Exactly, those two are pretty standard.options.
As far as door latches go the cross bar and draw bolts probably predate it by thousands of years but I don’t use those regularly.
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”.
I suppose SSH has been around for ages, I use that
Fire.
The wheel, rope, fire.
I’ve used a chisel before, but yeah, fire is the oldest I use on a regular basis.
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
Yesterday I used an axe to chop firewood.
I have a 10 megabit ethernet hub (not switch) that I still use in my homelab. It’s just a super easy way to throttle devices and helpful for diagnosing network issues.
A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.
Probably the FM radio.
Or the fridge or the light bulb.
God damn, none of you use toilets? Disgustan!
