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I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006

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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 weeks ago

Rosa Parks lived until 2005

(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

And Emmett Till could still be very much alive, had he not been lynched.

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[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 65 points 2 weeks ago

The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How are pension recipients determined?

...Didn't that war end like 160 years ago?

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 45 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Stuff like this is also why a lot of companies have also moved away from pensions, one it's expensive, two mismanagement, but it turns out that offering to pay someone for free until the end of their life doesn't make shareholders happy, so fuck the employees right?

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Civil war employees must've had a powerful Union lol.

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[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Dalí was a huge Alice Cooper fan

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

Alice Cooper babysat Keanu Reeves. His mom met Cooper when she was a costume designer.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tangentially related Technology Connections video: The Numitron: An obvious idea that wasn't very bright

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Lexus sold cars with cassette players until 2010

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago

A mainframe computer is probably still processing your paycheck in either your company or the bank.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

...and doing at least part of it in COBOL. Random fact: there are about 10,000 mainframe computers still in use around the world.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Continuing off OP's list, the last PS3 game was released in 2020

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

Heck, people are still producing new games for the Commodore 64.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm old enough to remember when iPods first came out but somehow I didn't realise podcast came from the word iPod. TIL!

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Jim Crow.

The south still has similar voting restrictions, it's just the supreme court stopped caring and said 'sure, whatevs'.

[-] ooli@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Some women in Swiss were only allowed to vote in 1984.

Cleopatra is closer to us than she was from the great pyramid construction.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It helps to remember that Cleopatra was both from a completely different incarnation of Egypt and that she was the last independent pharaoh before Egypt became a Roman province.

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago

The last cathode-ray tube televisions were made in 2015.

Being interested in CRT TVs, that's intresting to know

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 19 points 2 weeks ago

Polaroids are still going strong.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

They mostly died and had a resurgence, you’re totally right!

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Polaroids are what you get from sitting on an iceberg too long.

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Slavery being legal in the US.

Ooops, sorry, I forgot that it's still perfectly legal in the US.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.autism.place 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a CD collector, they're definitely underrated

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

One of the only things I've encountered in life that provides greater joy than sex is the feeling of finding an awesome super underground CD in a $1 garbage bin at the local record shop.

Favorite findings:

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, Sad Tropics
Sunswimmer, New Madrid
New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Who thought they weren't around?

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

Slavery. People always talk about slavery like it's something that only existed in 19th century America as if it wasn't happening right now everywhere.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.

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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

Western Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy (though the majority doesn't realize it yet, and think the Americans only fucked themselves)

[-] SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~Slavery~~ American chattel slavery.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

You're completely right. I did the American thing that Americans are wont to do. Apologies.

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[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ruby Bridges is alive and well.

[-] toddestan@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

Juno is still around and still offers dialup internet plans. Earthlink was still offering dialup until last year.

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

The ottoman empire

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 weeks ago

Feudalism as a form of government didn't end in Europe until 2008 when the Island of Sark converted over to representative democracy.

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