GNU Emacs, from the 1980s

RSS feeds are so nice. I'm still frustrated that Facebook moved away from an in-order timeline. (Or would be if I used it for anything other than family chats)

An ordered list of things you haven't seen yet on instead of a mostly random list from everywhere. Amazing.

A spade or a shovel or something??

On special occasions I grind coffee beans with a small wooden frame coffee grinder my grandparents got as wedding present sometime in the 1930's. Made and gifted for the couple by the grooms brother.

A lever and a pulley and an inclined plane.

1990s solar powered calculator.

I hope they dig one up in 10000 years and it still works.

SQL.

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.

Well, I have a private aircraft first designed in 1783...

Probably the FM radio.

Or the fridge or the light bulb.

Maybe my DS Lite? It's from 18 years ago and I still kinda like the form factor. Honorable mentions to my DSi and DSi XL. They all have working batteries still too, go figure!

Winamp

Black powder guns. What a total pain in the ass. But they're damned fun when they go bang.

I have a Kindle from 2011 that's still in perfect condition and gets daily use. Every now and then I'm tempted to get a newer eReader but I can't come up with a single reason to actually do it.

My wife just dug an old iPod that must be from ~2008 from some box in the basement so she can listen to music at work all day without killing the battery on her phone.

Holy crap. Gopher is old AF.

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.

I have a “data transcription machine” which is meant to pull data off of old media. It has:

• 3½″+5¼″ combo floppy drive
• IDE hot swap cage
• Zip 250 IDE drive
• Jaz 2Gb SCSI drive
• Internal 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI controllers

Let’s just say that I have enough devices cross my bench that SpinRite 6 gets a monthly workout on some piece of old storage tech or another. Not everything is recoverable, but…

winrar, i think

Zune, 2nd gen. Pretty much only on road trips since the battery only lasts about 10 minutes but as long as that squircle keeps working, the tunes keep flowing.

I still occasionally use the bread maker my family got as a gift about 30 years ago.

Not my most used tools but I've got a few axes that are probably 50 to 100 years old

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.

my iPod Touch 4 that currently works as a whatever i want information displayer. I've previously made it display CPU/GPU temps and RAM usage percentage as a graph, but now it pretty much is a terminal command history log displayer.

Clothing probaby. Admittedly, it's a bit more advanced than simple animal furs. I also have a knife, but again, probably a touch better than a sharpened piece of flint...

I occasionally harness fire. Does that count?