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i have a fully functional Kodak Brownie, 100 years old.. but it requires ancient 117 roll film.

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.

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.

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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(Although, I'm not sure that they're outdated, since they're still manufactured and sold as yacht lamps, and you can still get parts.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.)

• My fountain pen (and ballpoint too), paper notebook and print books: no login required, no tracking, no sub (and no constant need to upgrade to the newest version: some of my fountain pens are older than I'm (I'm 50+ ;)
• My DVDs and CDs: no login required, no tracking, no sub.

I still use CRTs on occasion.

I am famous for my love of my air fryer. Also, I had my main camera, a polaroid camera, gifted to me by my grandfather (who got it special from the higher-ups of Kodak back when I resided close to Rochester), and I don't ever see myself giving it up.

My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made

Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.

My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.

I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.

I have this old PC I made back in 2014. It's an AMD build can't remember the processor, I use it as a multimedia pc hooked up to myain tv in the living room for watching movies shows and streaming, so the specs are low.

I recently updated to a AMD 5500 because the hardware was loosing support so it was time a for a whole new platform. I used the old case and video card from the 2014 build.

When I put the old video card into the new 5500 build I had a really hard time getting drivers for it for Linux Mint and I couldn't figure out why.

It took me a while but that card I swapped over was a freaking Nvidia 8400 from like 2007. That card worked for 18 mfing years!

Then it dawned on me. When I build that computer in 2014 I put that 8400 in there as a place holder until I would have gotten a more up to date card... I just forgot and it's been working diligently since then... I mean wow.

Does my PC with GTX 1660 count lol? No fancy ray tracing, no DLSS, no 4k, simple 1080p 60 fps gaming.

My Sony PRS-T1 ebook reader. Still working fine and without rooting (I will updated its software before learning that rooting it required a prior version).

My 2005 Peugeot 206. Although it's always at risk of stalling during heavy rainfall. And my wired headphones that are reliable all the time even though they get stuck in weird places sometimes.

Pebble Time Steel, Surface Pro 3, and Kindle Voyage

Old Casio watch. Works well on the same battery.

I have an old iPod I use when I go for walks or work.

A stereo amplifier taken from a home sound system stack that was... Probably made the 80s? Or else made in the 90s with an already outdated style, IDK.

It's not name brand, it's dual stereo instead of surround sound, it doesn't have any labels about how many amps it can pump out, but as long as I'm in an apartment, it doesn't get turned up past halfway.

I like that it has multiple inputs, bass/mid/treble knobs, and that the thing just works.

Edited to remove a guess at how many amps it has

Edit, I looked up the model number and found a page of specs

https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/onkyo/tx-910.shtml

45 watts per channel would be advertised as 180 watts combined, wouldn't it?

Original DS Lite.

I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.

The potential is limitless.

I love my double edge razor.s.

I don't actually use these much, but I love using them whenever I get a chance:

CRT monitors

iPod Classic

OG GameBoy

DSi XL

I actually had rockbox on the iPod but had to take it off because I'm more concerned with how it feels to use than the actual functionality; and rockbox kinda fucked it up.

Edit: I kinda unironically wish dial-up would come back, but as a novelty that ends up blowing up into an actual, community-driven internet. A) gives me fuzzy feelings for when I was a kid at my grandparents house before they ate the MAGA brainrot, and B) might force people to learn how to optimize their shitty websites or get left behind on the corpo-web.

It's an absolute battery hog, so I don't use it as often as I want to, but I got an old 90s Sony Discman some time last year. It came with some amazing 90s over the head in ear wited Sony headphones that works real good as well.

Just looked at the Discman and it was manufactured in '92 in Japan, model D-111, and I think it's real cool. I also checked the headphones and they're MDR-W08 in-ear headphones. Absolutely love both of them together, despite the fact the CD player is the biggest battery hog I've ever seen.

Hell, I got a CD for a game that came out a few years back and my Discman can handle it perfectly okay. I would have expected something to change in audio file formats that would have made this harder to do, so that is really cool K can play it so easily.

My modded 3ds + modded Wii U system I have a very large library of games that I can run on both systems + I got a lot of controllers for local-couch sessions.

Too much to list.

Stuff that was created to do something and does just that.

No fuss, no ads, no updates, no sudden change of terms, no phoning home.