A car without an internet connection.

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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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

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

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

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 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.

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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.

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.

Not sure if “Outdated”, but I still uses microSD card slot on my Samsung A-Series phone. I might’ve gone for the S-Series if they had the sd card slot, so yea good job, Samsung, don’t dare touching the sdcard slot on the A-Series, or I might just go for like a motorola, or HMD/Nokia or something.

I also have some ham radios and a shortwave radio in case of like government censorship or natural disaster or something (especially considering recent USA politics). I don’t use them much, I just randomly scan the frequencies to see if theres anything.

I heard like emergency communications during the Philly plane crash recently, although, I couldn’t decipher what they were saying, I just heard some “pieces” and “bodies” and “crater” but its all out of context and I didn’t understand a thing. I also heard some people taking about mundane life things on GMRS, or saying they were getting ready to watch the Eagles game. Still have yet to find anything interesting. But I kinda just have radios because I like the idea of having stuff that still have a practical purpose if the internet and cell networks shut down. Like I’m not even “old”, I was born after 2000, but still want to radios just to have them.

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

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.

A 15+ year old MSI laptop. I’ve had to replace the screen and the battery is dead so I removed it and just use direct power. It’s happily chugging along dual booted with Windows 7 and Mint. I don’t remember the last time I logged on to the Windows partitiion, but I’m too lazy to back up the 1TB of stuff there so I just keep it there. It’s connected to my TV and I use it to watch movies.