A car without an internet connection.

My wired headphones.

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

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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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

Doorknobs.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Count me in for CRTs and old consoles.

I also used a Dualshock 4 specifically for a couple of fighting games until all the dumb micro USBs gave up the ghost. It just worked better than the DS5 for me for some reason just for this specific application.

Controllers are a place where I'm fairly odd and obsessive, in general. I still have fight sticks for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the PsOne. I firmly believe the chunky Sega Saturn controller with the handles is way superior to the bone controller that everybody keeps mimicking, unfortunately. The couple I still have in working order are deeply cherished. I have all sorts of weird, tiny modern controllers, and I still have a PS3 fightpad from the launch of Street Fighter IV. And don't get me started on my hot takes on leverless controllers.

I'm old, my hands hurt and I've gone down some rabbit holes.

I still use magnetic tape media. VHS, Cassette, Video8, miniDV. the camcorders and players are not being made new any more that's for sure.

pretty much any physical media, such as DVDs and CDs could be considered outdated now too, love my Minidiscs.

I've made a point of keeping and finding real Televisions with Analogue/Digital tuner combos. having buttons work immediately when you press them wasn't something I ever thought would be engineered out.

Still play my Gamecube and still have basically every console from before it going back to the 2600.

Dumb tv.

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.

1981 Yamaha turntable and receiver pair. Dad bought them new for my grandparents and I inherited the set when they passed. Fabulous sound and function!

I still use two SL1210 turntables from Technics. They are from 1991 and still doing a great Job. My father-in-law bought them for his Nightclub he owned back in the days.

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

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 2 HP printers from the early 2000s

My modded new 3DS LL

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.

• Colt .45 Government Model, 2022 model. Same pistol that won two world wars. TWO WORLD WARS! Seriously though, it's a little freaky that a 114-yo design is still flawless. I have the Valentine's Day patent printed on canvas. My wife is Filipino, they're 1911 fanatics, IYNYN. (Yes, people say they can be problematic. Those people have knockoffs.)

• No idea how old my Sony receiver/amp is, 15-yo? LOL, never even touched all the options on that thing, drives my whole sound system, including remote speakers in the kitchen. Karaoke is badass no matter which way you face!

• 1981 Sony EQ. Rocks out, little tetchy if you touch it wrong (BLAOOOW!), but sitting still once adjusted, perfection.

• 70s Pioneer, rackmount timer system. Not in use but as a clock, stupid cool for the $20 I gave.

• 80s (?) Pioneer single tape deck. Not installed yet!

• Remington 1895 10-gauge, Damascus-steel shotgun, made in the same year. It's the crappiest version, looks like the hillbilly's gun from Loony Tunes, fun as hell, only safe with birdshot. (It was made for black powder, not modern explosives.)

• 20-gauge generic "trade gun" from the 20s. Modern take, "made in China under assorted brand names, same damned unit, stamp a new name on it". Light, never fails to fire, sometimes pops apart after firing. Easy to disassemble!

• 1999 486SX running Windows 98 on a jerry-rigged SSD. Originally an industrial control box, only ever seen 1 video about the beast, stupid rare. Blew the network drivers, still working on it.

• 1970s or 80s Revelation brand pump 12-gauge. Took me weeks to figure out it's just a Mossberg rebranded to sell in Western Auto stores. Yes, auto stores sold shotguns in the day.

• Sawed off (legal), double-barrel, 12-gauge "coach gun" from 1890 or so. Some guy refurbished it, love the look, dead sexy, no good as an antique.

• Assorted crappy shotguns (old sampler for a pic) from every decade except the 1910s and 1930s, I think. Hard/impossible to research, records lost, factory burned or recycled for paper in WWII.

• Watches! Wore my 1987 Swatch today. Assorted Casios, new and old, including the "terrorist" version. Wife got me a sweet one yesterday, probably not 10-yo, doesn't count?

• My body, circa 1971 or so.

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analog watches, also analog odometers/ dashboard

piano, keyboard

dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb can opener, dumb book, dumb eyeglasses, dumb shoes

i like dumb buttons, sliders, knobs and switches vs touch controls

15 years is old? I have PCs running that are older than that.

I still have my Game Boy lying around here. I think last time I played was 2 years ago. That should be the oldest tech I still use. Apart from the cables in the house.

Oil lamps. They have the same appeal that's behind the resurgent popularity of vinyl records. They're hefty, kinesthetic items that feel good in the hand. There's a little ritual that goes into using them. There's the sensory appeal. I bought a Thomas & Williams miner's lamp that was said to have been a prize that the original owner won in a regatta in the 1920's. It's all shiny brass, with a heavy, solid feel, and the parts fit together with such a satisfying precision. There's feeling the heat of the flame, and the slight scent of kerosene that it emits.

(Although, I'm not sure that they're outdated, since they're still manufactured and sold as yacht lamps, and you can still get parts. Last month, I ordered a brand new glass chimney for it.)

The mouse I use on this computer is from the mid-2000s. Just in the past week or so it's losing clicks. I will have to get a new one and I'm ruing it.

It's this one if anyone cares.

My E-61 espresso machine. The machine isn’t that old but the design dates back to 1961. Popping the cover for maintenance reminds me of working on an old car.

It makes great coffee too!