Rosa Parks lived until 2005
(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.
And Emmett Till could still be very much alive, had he not been lynched.
The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.
How are pension recipients determined?
...Didn't that war end like 160 years ago?
US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.
It can be argued that the Roman empire didn't truly end until WWI in 1918, 106 years ago.
The fall of the Byzantine Empire (aka the Eastern Roman Empire) resulted in a number of subdivided but diplomatically aligned states. By the end of the 19th century a number of European powers were still vying for some claim to the lineage of the Roman Empire (and the Emperor title). But as consequence of the war, the German/Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires we're all dismantled (and France was out or the running because of the revolution) so every entity with a claim was dead or out of power for the first time since the 11th century.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
People seem to think they lived mostly or entirely in the 1800’s. The fact that Rick Wakeman of the rock bands Yes and The Strawbs had once pushed Dalí offstage in 1970 is such a weird overlap of eras.
France used the guillotine for the last time in 1977.
There is still one Blockbuster store open, located in Bend, Oregon.
Dalí was a huge Alice Cooper fan
Alice Cooper babysat Keanu Reeves. His mom met Cooper when she was a costume designer.
holy crap you made me look that up and woa. official form of execution till they stopped capital punishment so they never officially used anything else.
Nixie tubes - those vacuum tubes that display a single digit or character on glowing wires - were commonplace in the 1950s and 60s but were superseded by LEDs. They're still made in the Czech Republic, bought mostly by hobbyists to build retro gadgets. I have a few myself that I haven't gotten around to using.
Tangentially related Technology Connections video: The Numitron: An obvious idea that wasn't very bright
There's a mod for Factorio that adds these in for use in our circuit spaghetti
Lexus sold cars with cassette players until 2010
That isn't as crazy as it may seem. My main audio source well after graduation which was 2005, was a portable cd player that could play cd's burned with compressed mp3 libraries and connected to the car's stereo system via aux to cassette adapter.
Idk about the portable cd player with mp3 library being common but most blunt cruises in those days were done in vehicles using portable cd player with cassette adapter. I know this is super anecdotal and specifically about the car owner class that isn't buying new Lexus' but I still wanted to point out the cassette deck saw extended use long after people stopped listening to actual cassettes.
A mainframe computer is probably still processing your paycheck in either your company or the bank.
...and doing at least part of it in COBOL. Random fact: there are about 10,000 mainframe computers still in use around the world.
The human race went extinct about 17 years ago. We're all secretly something else, but we don't tell you about it until you're 45.
HEY! SHHH! You know the rule, and you know the consequences. I've said too much.
Leaded fuel. Avgas is 100-octane leaded gasoline that is still being used by most small aircraft piston engines. Lead-free alternatives exist, but production and supply infrastructure is nonexistent.
Continuing off OP's list, the last PS3 game was released in 2020
Heck, people are still producing new games for the Commodore 64.
The most recent commercial game using the modified 2.5D Doom engine, was released in May 2024 on Steam. It is called Selaco.
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The iPod was discontinued in 2022. I'm guessing there's already a lot of kids who have no idea where the term "podcast" comes from.
The Famicom Disk System, which uses a kind of floppy disk for the Japanese market NES, had kiosks where you could copy games onto disks. The last of those kiosks were removed in 2003 It overlapped the Game Cube.
I'm old enough to remember when iPods first came out but somehow I didn't realise podcast came from the word iPod. TIL!
The last cathode-ray tube televisions were made in 2015.
Being interested in CRT TVs, that's intresting to know
Polaroids are still going strong.
They mostly died and had a resurgence, you’re totally right!
I got one as a birthday gift once and it's one of my favorite gifts even despite the fact it's an invention that's five decades older than me. It's like some time traveler somewhere knew what they were doing.
Polaroids are what you get from sitting on an iceberg too long.
Some women in Swiss were only allowed to vote in 1984.
Cleopatra is closer to us than she was from the great pyramid construction.
Jim Crow.
The south still has similar voting restrictions, it's just the supreme court stopped caring and said 'sure, whatevs'.
Western Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy (though the majority doesn't realize it yet, and think the Americans only fucked themselves)
~~Slavery~~ American chattel slavery.
This doesn't qualify. Slavery is still in use in the world. You'd have to use a modifier like American slavery or the enslavement of x, y, z, people.
You're completely right. I did the American thing that Americans are wont to do. Apologies.
You're talking about prison convicts right? Actually lookup "chattel slavery", it means someone owns the person. No matter how you spin the words to make yourself right, convicts don't have owners. What they do is involuntary servitude not slavery. Calling it slavery devalues the experience of people who were forcibly kidnapped, shipped across the ocean, and sold in markets. And no, the race disparity in prison populations doesn't make prison labor slavery, anymore than being green makes grass a frog.
Now, now, just calm down there Charlie.
I said nothing about prison slavery. You're reading things into my post that are not there. The point I was trying to make is that the last the last living person who existed as property under what people think of as Slavery in the United States died in 1975. That's either not even or just barely two generations ago.
But the rest of your statement, yeah....idk. I'll just say that people are still being kidnapped, shipped and sold in this country. The mechanisms are different, the justifications are different. The underlying reasons? Not so much.
Feudalism as a form of government didn't end in Europe until 2008 when the Island of Sark converted over to representative democracy.
Audio CDs are still around. While they're surely not the medium people listen music from, they will most likely be on the merch table at the next concert you go to.
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