I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
A car without an internet connection.
Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.
I guess my ~10 manual car with no backup cam counts lol
My 1980 Honda XR500 is an absolute workhorse of a machine. Almost 47 years old (built 08/1979) and still effortlessly pulls wheelies on command. Very little wiring, and most of it is for the lighting to make it street legal.
An XR not an XL?
I recently bought a Pioneer PD-F905 101 CD player. It’s 30 years old and I absolute love it. It needed a lot of cleaning (mostly nicotine and tar), but after that it worked like a charm again
Did you clean it like this guy cleaned a junk Gameboy Color? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmGMi0IEx4
that was waaay too enjoyable a watch. thanks!
Doorknobs.
Yuck.
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
Still rocking my kindle keyboard. Great little device, however I would love a backlit screen and usb c port for charging now. I’d actually like it to be a bit more multipurpose for reading and annotating pdfs (I read quite a bit of spec sheets for work) so I am looking at remarkable/boox but only if my company allows me to expense it.
Yeah for comics I have a boox and also love it, definitely worth it if you can get your company to pay
I think my Paperwhite is the first one without buttons
I have the original Kindle fire. You can have it for free. It even has a micro HDMI port.
My 90s bike.
Most of the components have certainly evolved when you look at a modern counterpart.
But it’s still fully repairable, serviceable at home or on the trail, extremely reliable, and doesn’t require any firmware updates or batteries to use 😄
- Cantilever rim brakes.
- Square tapered bottom bracket.
- Cup and cone hub bearings.
- External cables.
- Friction shifters (may latest “upgrade”!)
- Steel frame.
So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.
EDIT: Photo of my metal steed in “winter mode”. LOL
I wanna see pics of this!
just added a photo.
Can you post pics please?
photo added :)
Great bike. Looks like a great place too.
Our waterfront trail (Lake Ontario) really is beautiful, no matter where you stop!).
I’m still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.
I bought some pencils and paper last night. Gonna write something stuff down, while using my chair to sit at my desk, in this house.
So much old technology that I rely upon.
bought it? like with money? pfft what an outdated technology
That happened to me just a few weeks ago: a cashier refused to accept money as payment.
But don’t worry, I didn’t use language to talk to a cashier, I used the u-scan.
Count me in for CRTs and old consoles.
I also used a Dualshock 4 specifically for a couple of fighting games until all the dumb micro USBs gave up the ghost. It just worked better than the DS5 for me for some reason just for this specific application.
Controllers are a place where I’m fairly odd and obsessive, in general. I still have fight sticks for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the PsOne. I firmly believe the chunky Sega Saturn controller with the handles is way superior to the bone controller that everybody keeps mimicking, unfortunately. The couple I still have in working order are deeply cherished. I have all sorts of weird, tiny modern controllers, and I still have a PS3 fightpad from the launch of Street Fighter IV. And don’t get me started on my hot takes on leverless controllers.
I’m old, my hands hurt and I’ve gone down some rabbit holes.
15 years is old? I have PCs running that are older than that.
I still have my Game Boy lying around here. I think last time I played was 2 years ago. That should be the oldest tech I still use. Apart from the cables in the house.
My wired headphones.
I hate the wires dangling around my ears and neck. So annoying lol
I hate constantly needing to charge headphones and dealing with bluetooth connection issues. Way more annoying lol
I still use magnetic tape media. VHS, Cassette, Video8, miniDV. the camcorders and players are not being made new any more that’s for sure.
pretty much any physical media, such as DVDs and CDs could be considered outdated now too, love my Minidiscs.
I’ve made a point of keeping and finding real Televisions with Analogue/Digital tuner combos. having buttons work immediately when you press them wasn’t something I ever thought would be engineered out.
Still play my Gamecube and still have basically every console from before it going back to the 2600.
MiniDisc is probably the best designed format in terms of looks.
The discs still looks futuristic with the holographic effect and bright colors.
The size of the discs also contribute to making them a perfect prop for movies and TV shows, they are easily handled and can be integrated anywhere.
Same with a lot of the players and portable recorders.
I will never accept that MD was released 32 years ago, they can still represent contemporary society or a cool tech future.
I am sad that I never had an MD player despite growing up when they were released, I only got one or two used back in 2011-2016 to play around with, it was fun but ever since I was one of the first students with an MP3 player (a Creative Nomad MuVo 64mb) at my school back sometime in 2000-2003 I have been into solid state music players and quickly integrated them into my phone.
My modded new 3DS LL
I will never get rid of my modded N3DSXL (with clit-joystick replaced with a PSP joystick!), my modded PSP, or my modded Vita.
I should play New Leaf. I’ve never played it before and I hear it’s the best one.
My girlfriend is just getting into videogames, she started playing New Leaf recently and always send me videos of the stuff she unlocks, I only played the DS one, but gotta say, New Leaf sure looks fun.
Awesome, I’ll for sure check it out! Just have to remember how to download games to my and my partner’s DSes hahaha
I’ve played the GameCube one and the Switch one, but everyone I’ve talked to said the Switch one is a downgrade from New Leaf!
It’s better for making a pretty island or a nicely-decorated house. And the vault pole is a real benefit early on, before you can build bridges. Otherwise, NL really is the better game.
A stereo amplifier taken from a home sound system stack that was… Probably made the 80s? Or else made in the 90s with an already outdated style, IDK.
It’s not name brand, it’s dual stereo instead of surround sound, it doesn’t have any labels about how many amps it can pump out, but as long as I’m in an apartment, it doesn’t get turn up past halfway.
I like that it has multiple inputs, bass/mid/treble knobs, and that the thing just works.
I still use two SL1210 turntables from Technics. They are from 1991 and still doing a great Job. My father-in-law bought them for his Nightclub he owned back in the days.
Most of my peripherals honestly, my monitors are all 10-20 years old, my keyboard is a like 30 year old Dell AT101W, I only replaced my old Logitech G35 headphones when they literally fell to pieces
I’m deep into the keyboard rabbit hole, but my oldest (currently working) ones are a 1998 IBM Model M and a weird military keyboard from the mid-90s.
