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[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago
[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

How materialistic of you, you can just use your hands!

[-] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Ceramic might be better than wood

[-] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I appreciate the operation youโ€™re running here

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[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 1 day ago

I think sewing machines would count? They certainly got a hell lot more "portable", but the basic design hasn't changed much since the 1880s. Those things are little mechanical marvels

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[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[-] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

Silicone might be better than wood

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 27 points 1 day ago
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[-] bobo1900@startrek.website 28 points 1 day ago

Maybe not perfect upon conception, but after a couple of decades from common adoption, the bycicle really didn't change much. Sure, you can use lighter and more advanced materials, you can add an electric motor to it (though I wouldn't classify it as a bycicle) but you can probably take a 100 years old bike and it would work just as good as a modern one.

Have you seen belt drive bikes? Not the electric ones. Pretty cool stuff, much lower maintenance. Also internal gear hubs. There's still innovation happening in bicycles to make them stronger against abuse

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[-] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Well, my bike looks exactly like that. It's just carbon all the way down now ๐Ÿ˜„

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who needs gears when you can build the mechanical reduction into the wheel size.

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 17 points 1 day ago

It also too about 100 years to reach the modern design of rubber tyres and a drive train, with the rider sitting slightly forward of the rear axle and well behind the front wheel.

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[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 102 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The 3.5mm audio jack. It's so fundamentally simplistic from a manufacturing standpoint and circuitry standpoint that any headset you throw at it will work identically without fail (the key innovation being the speakers or headphones where the analog signal is sent to).

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Technically 1/4โ€ jacks were first. 1/8โ€ only to make 1/4โ€ smaller.

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[-] Greddan@feddit.org 83 points 2 days ago

Saw a post just today with a 1000 year old folding chair. Looked pretty much identical to the ones used today. Lost the post but kept the picture.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago

Ones today would be mass produced from cheap materials though

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[-] loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 days ago

Potato peelers. The ergonomic handle was a big step forward, yes. But the basic design hasn't (and likely won't) change.

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[-] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 days ago

The Bic pen. Sure, you can make it better, but then the price has to go up. You can still buy a nearly unchanged Bic pen from any office store for cheaper than any other writing tool, nearly identical to what they looked like when they were first invented.

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[-] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

Microwave oven. It sort of just...appeared, and the design didn't change much.

[-] ambitious_bones@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

In my Flat we still have a microwave that does not have a rotating plate. Insteadt it has a spinning rotor in the roof that deflects the waves in order to cook food evenly. It works well but it is needlessly complicated compared to modern microwaves.

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[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago
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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago

Bendy sticks and string to launch them over 150m away.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

No, it was later improved by using different materials, better tools to make it and hardening it with fire.

[-] Highlandcow@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

Maybe FM synthesis, it revolutionised the sound of the 1980s and music production as a whole

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 32 points 2 days ago

The MIDI protocal. The technologies that use it have evolved in all sorts of ways, but the protocol has remained unchanged.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago

MIDI protocol for users might be good enough but for developers is a nightmare if you want to do advanced synthesis

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