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A car without an internet connection.

My wired headphones.

iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.

I have this old PC I made back in 2014. It's an AMD build can't remember the processor, I use it as a multimedia pc hooked up to myain tv in the living room for watching movies shows and streaming, so the specs are low.

I recently updated to a AMD 5500 because the hardware was loosing support so it was time a for a whole new platform. I used the old case and video card from the 2014 build.

When I put the old video card into the new 5500 build I had a really hard time getting drivers for it for Linux Mint and I couldn't figure out why.

It took me a while but that card I swapped over was a freaking Nvidia 8400 from like 2007. That card worked for 18 mfing years!

Then it dawned on me. When I build that computer in 2014 I put that 8400 in there as a place holder until I would have gotten a more up to date card... I just forgot and it's been working diligently since then... I mean wow.

i have a fully functional Kodak Brownie, 100 years old.. but it requires ancient 117 roll film.

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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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

Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books

Tech that still works, I'll continue to use it till it dies. Then I'll try to revive it, and if I can't, then I'll upgrade. My main PC is over 10 years old.

Doorknobs.

I'm still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.

RSS Feed - this is my way to read news - clean, direct, without ads

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

My 2005 Peugeot 206. Although it's always at risk of stalling during heavy rainfall. And my wired headphones that are reliable all the time even though they get stuck in weird places sometimes.

Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.

My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.

I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.

I have a large collection of game consoles, with several being older than myself. Just to list the ones that are at least 20 years old:

• NES
• PC Engine (Core Grafx II)
• Game Boy
• Genesis (Model 2) + Sega CD (Model 2)
• SNES
• Game Gear
• Saturn (Model 2)
• PlayStation
• Nintendo 64
• Game Boy Pocket
• Game Boy Color
• Dreamcast
• WonderSwan Color
• PlayStation 2
• Game Boy Advance
• GameCube
• Xbox

I also have some old A/V stuff, like a small collection of CD Walkmans and most of the pieces in my stereo system (the turntable is new, but everything else is pretty old). I buy a lot of old electronics from thrift stores because I really just love playing with them.

Original DS Lite.

I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.

The potential is limitless.

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.

My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.

My ten year old desktop.

Sony PCM-M10 field recorder Olympia Travel Typewriter Olympus mju2 point and shoot camera

Still have the first computer I bought with my own money, and it still works. It's an Amiga 500 from 1991. I fire it up and play ancient games with it once in a while, on the ancient 1084s CRT monitor.

Also had one of the super rare A3000T's but unfortunately the battery corroded the motherboard while I had it stored away. I didn't even learn about that problem until researching what had gone wrong with my beautiful Amiga tower. C'est la vie. At least I was able to get an image of the 120MB SCSI hard drive, which I can boot up in an emulator and relive the glory days of 1993.

home appliances!! I would never want anything with app and screen, just buttons and dials for me please + I like owning my own media so HDDs full of stuff I accumulated trughout years

My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made

My modded 3ds + modded Wii U system I have a very large library of games that I can run on both systems + I got a lot of controllers for local-couch sessions.

A 15+ year old MSI laptop. I've had to replace the screen and the battery is dead so I removed it and just use direct power. It's happily chugging along dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. I don't remember the last time I logged on to the Windows partitiion, but I'm too lazy to back up the 1TB of stuff there so I just keep it there. It's connected to my TV and I use it to watch movies.

my second monitor says 2009 on the back. still use it. like it more than my main 2016 one which is itself about to turn a decade old.

• My fountain pen (and ballpoint too), paper notebook and print books: no login required, no tracking, no sub (and no constant need to upgrade to the newest version: some of my fountain pens are older than I'm (I'm 50+ ;)
• My DVDs and CDs: no login required, no tracking, no sub.

Analog wrist watches. Seiko is my preferred brand and I have a few of them but my favorite is a Timex Indiglo from somewhere around 1989.

It was my grandpa's. It was the only watch he owned and probably cost $20 at the Walmart jewelry counter. The glowing dial still works 36 years later.

Dumb tv.

Too much to list.

Stuff that was created to do something and does just that.

No fuss, no ads, no updates, no sudden change of terms, no phoning home.

Would love to use a MP3 player with wired earphones but the kinda decent ones are like $200 — which may not be much for some but it is for me and my third-world salary.