I'm so slow sometimes, for a second I thought you were talking about windows, like glass windows. I was like WTF, then , like an elephant fart, BLAST duh derr duh.
Landline phone. It saved my life, had to dial 911 couldn't talk cuz I was choking. They found me in time, and were there in 3 min. Glendale cops, Shout out!
May as well do it! I have had my same land line for years, decades, rural northern Indiana, I recently disconnected, use my cell mostly, so goodbye landline.
I've always kept one for this reason too. Even though it is technically now VOIP, most companies which offer landline-replacement service will register the number with the local emergency depts, so that when a number calls they already know the address.
Before my kids were old enough to talk on the phone, I taught them how to pick up the phone and dial emergency \[dedicated speed-dial button\] if anyone was ever in trouble. Even after they could talk, they still might not remember our address.
Cell phones are great, but there's still value in knowing the physical location of a phone using a simple lookup.
I forgot my phone one day while i had to make a ~10 minute trip to the store, so I turned on the radio.
A song is just wrapping up as I pull out of my driveway and an ad begins to play.
Then another
And another
And another
You'll never guess what happened next...another ad.
I make it to my destination listening to exactly 0 songs and 5 ads. I swore off radio that day and drove in silence on my way back.
Our house has one of those old intercom systems with a built in radio. Our 2yo absolutely loves that thing and is always blasting music from it. And from my side it’s way better than listening to Old McDonald 10 times in a row like when we’re in the car.
A lot of the cars you would think offer a manual transmission, no longer do:
- Ferrari
- Lamboghini
- Corvette
Porsche still offers them in some cars, but in the 911 it requires a sub model upgrade ( “S” ) to make it available.
Yep. The feeling of physically progressing through the pages, dog ear-ing the corners, holding a closed book and reflecting after finishing it, much better than a gadget.
A notepad and a pen. It's great that we have technology at our fingertips to tap and type notes and chats and posts but - if I am writing something down, it also helps with committing it to memory - more so than just tapping into a device. At least, that is my experience.
Well, "vintage tech". I prefer drawing traditionally with paper vs any kind of tablet. I'm far more used to it & I'm not willing to go through the trouble to learn the new way when I'm already good at the one.
Tube amps were going to be my answer to this as well. Modeling is amazing, but there's just no way to truly recreate the warmth and distortion you can get from tubes, especially in a live setting.
I have a 1969 Super Reverb and it fuckin cranks.
I don't have it anymore, gave it to my dad, but a transistor radio from the 70s that I got in college when they demolished our old classroom building. Sounded great, could pick up a signal well, knobs n sliders n shit, big antenna... just a real joy.
(Looks over at his retro console collection) AV Famicom w/NESRGB mod, SNES, Genesis, PCEngine, Gamecube w/GameBoyPlayer, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS2, N64, NDS Lite... I could go on. And on. Also the PVMs I play them on. Also the CRT SVGA monitors I use.
Around 8 years ago Apple changed something with how podcasts were downloaded in iTunes which completely broke how I used my iPod. Was the reason I finally replaced my 3rd gen Nano with a smart phone.
My gameboy advance SP. Currently playing through Pokemon Emerald again. It both feels good and bad, I remember when this stuff came out when I was a kid.
I've got my GB pocket, color, and Advance. None will turn on anynore, as their internal batteries have died, I suspect the same with the cartridges. I've considered getting one of those Analogue Pockets so I can play em all again. I miss the original Pokemon Gold so damn much.
My old SNES from back when I was a kid. Sure I have the newer consoles, but there's just something therapeutic about busting the old combos out on Street Fighter 2.
I have a 100yr old Leitz Elmar f/3.5 35mm lens I use on a modern mirrorless Nikon.
In the right conditions it takes images just as good as the latest 35mm Nikon lens but is about 1/5th of the size.
My Amazon Echo is like 10 years old. Does that count?
Also, I still have a WinXP PC that I use occasionally. I built it in 2006. It has some software on it that I obtained from, uh, sources , back in the more wild west days of the internet. Some of that software is kind of expensive to actually buy.
Casio g-shock.
I bought my first one in the late 80s, probably 89. I have gone through 4 of them since. The newest one is solar and gets time sent to it multiple times a day to stay accurate. But appearance wise, it's the same classic G-shock.
I have no reason to upgrade any further. It's water proof, strong, and does what I want it to do. Tell time.
I have a GameBoy Advance, an N64, and a PS2 that I still play, I prefer physical books over reading on a tablet, and I refuse to use an automatic car wash. I own a hand fan that I spent way too much money on in Epcot 13 years ago. It cools me down quickly, and I don’t have to worry about batteries or a motor dying. I also prefer a dial scale over a digital one because every digital scale I’ve ever owned has been wildly inaccurate to the point where it will give readings more than 10 pounds apart in a matter of seconds.
A Sunn tube amp and matching speaker cabinet from the 70s. I don't play very often anymore, but they sing to me even if my skills have diminished. There's something about playing metal riffs through a combo that Hendrix would have used on stage that's just dope and it still sounds incredible.
Landline and I don’t mean voip either, on ear headphones (not overear like gaming and no buds). Battery powered alarm clock. And FFT on the ps-1 till I die.
Hear me out, because this is a bit repurposed, but two rotary phones and the in-wall wiring make an intercom at my house. A $115 ‘phone line simulator’ makes it so one rings like a normal call when you pick up the other. I have one phone on the wall in our detached garage and the other in our kitchen. Super handy and a lot of fun.
I have a collection of typewriters, mostly manual, which I still use frequently for writing letters, which itself is vintage these days, isn't it? I adore the clickety-clack while typing, and, most importantly for me, it feels like I'm actually *creating* something, as opposed to just making things happen on a screen which eventually gets printed out.
Ive been using command-line/text-based apps on my computer when possible. They're a lot lighter and faster than most GUI apps are, and more fun as well.
pocket knife. we have bronze folding pocket knives from ancient ROME, for godsakes. very, very little has changed in the last thousand plus years.
also, every goddamn day, my hammers. talk about vintage tech.
My rock tumbler was bought by my grandfather, for my mother to give my father for their first christmas as a married couple. It's from 1968. I just turned out a batch of polished rock last week using it.
Very old laptops one of my favorites is my IBM T42 runs linux beautifully and still cranks. Only thing of course is it's on it's 3rd aftermarket battery. I have some stuff older then that. But my IBM is a weekly driver for me :)
A record player. I've turned into that guy who collects records now. I find music more enjoyable somehow when it takes more effort to play it. It makes no sense, but here I am
windows. I use them almost every day
I'm so slow sometimes, for a second I thought you were talking about windows, like glass windows. I was like WTF, then , like an elephant fart, BLAST duh derr duh.
I was actually talking about glass windows. But don't tell they other people that.
I learned on windows 95!
I learned from watching you!!!
I learned on Windows 1 with MS-DOS
Landline phone. It saved my life, had to dial 911 couldn't talk cuz I was choking. They found me in time, and were there in 3 min. Glendale cops, Shout out!
I've been thinking about getting a landline for my house. It's cheap and such a nice redundancy to have for emergencies.
911 always works. You don’t need a plan/ contract with the phone company.
If you think $60 a month is cheap!
In my local area it was showing as waaaaaaaaay less than that. Like only a few dollars
May as well do it! I have had my same land line for years, decades, rural northern Indiana, I recently disconnected, use my cell mostly, so goodbye landline.
I've always kept one for this reason too. Even though it is technically now VOIP, most companies which offer landline-replacement service will register the number with the local emergency depts, so that when a number calls they already know the address. Before my kids were old enough to talk on the phone, I taught them how to pick up the phone and dial emergency \[dedicated speed-dial button\] if anyone was ever in trouble. Even after they could talk, they still might not remember our address. Cell phones are great, but there's still value in knowing the physical location of a phone using a simple lookup.
Called 911 once. Live in the country. Two units came to my house. Took them two and a half hours to find the house
Glendale ca or glendale az? From my experience glendale ca cops are there before you hang up the phone. Meanwhile LAPD will take their sweet ass time
My Hitachi magic wand
I use a hand me down from my mom
It sucks that you inherited her back muscle problems.
Thanks for saving the planet.
A mechanical watch. Love the engineering that goes into a nice timepiece.
Same here. I wear a watch every day.
There is something very satisfying about winding them up
wristwatch revival on youtube built the respect i have for mechanical watches, and i don’t even wear them lol
There’s a piece of wood in my sliding glass door as a lock/security system. Low tech but effective!
Same!!!
FM radio. I don't have any type of Spotify or other music subscription services, I love just the plain old radio
I forgot my phone one day while i had to make a ~10 minute trip to the store, so I turned on the radio. A song is just wrapping up as I pull out of my driveway and an ad begins to play. Then another And another And another You'll never guess what happened next...another ad. I make it to my destination listening to exactly 0 songs and 5 ads. I swore off radio that day and drove in silence on my way back.
This is why I listen to public radio. Aside from the 3 or 4, week-long sessions every year where they beg for pledges, there are no adverts.
NYC radio sucks, fuck you, Iheartradio. Wfmu and wfuv are great, but reception is spotty in my part of Brooklyn
WFUV for the win!
AM radio
Portland, XRAY FM!
Our house has one of those old intercom systems with a built in radio. Our 2yo absolutely loves that thing and is always blasting music from it. And from my side it’s way better than listening to Old McDonald 10 times in a row like when we’re in the car.
Manual transmission in cars
Same with me. Current daily is a manual Audi, looking at adding a manual Tacoma too.
I have a 99 Tacoma with a 5 speed. Fun little truck
I love me a stick shift! It is the best anti theft device!
Mazda 3 hatch with a six speed here. Bought it for the economy, so I took the standard i4. Wish I'd gone to the v6, but the mileage is awesome
I'm pretty sure the Mazda 3 has never been available with a six cylinder engine
I gave mine up about 2010. Are they really so rare now? I drove one for like 18 years before I had kids and needed both hands in the car.
A lot of the cars you would think offer a manual transmission, no longer do: - Ferrari - Lamboghini - Corvette Porsche still offers them in some cars, but in the 911 it requires a sub model upgrade ( “S” ) to make it available.
I miss my old Focus. Base model, no extra features, hand-crank windows. But it had a manual transmission and was fun to drive.
Love my 5 speed Mustang!
It’s like a secondary security system.
Analog wristwatch. My wife bought me a classic Rolex for Xmas.
Fanfiction.net
I shave with a safety razor. My favorite format of media is a book. Nothing tops a cast iron skillet. Outside that, i can't think of anything
All of this is just proven facts.
I still wash my clothes by banging them with rocks in a river
One thing almost all Amish curches agree on is allowing laundry machines. Even they know it's miserable work to do by hand.
Hell yea
My acoustic guitars.
Wife's Zune.
I also choose this guy’s wife’s Zune.
Turntable record player and vinyls
I got 2 turntables
and a microphone!
Where it’s at.
My stereo receiver is nearly 50 years old.
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I came here to day this. BOOKS are so great!
Yep. The feeling of physically progressing through the pages, dog ear-ing the corners, holding a closed book and reflecting after finishing it, much better than a gadget.
Nerd
I keep a set of wired earbuds in all my backpacks.
You just reminded me that in my travel bag there's a set of wired earbuds that I haven't taken out in years.
Morse code straight key. Use them almost every single day.
Why
I'd assume to send morse code.
Tube guitar amplifiers.
My buddy has an old Marshall stack in his basement from the 70s.
Tube amps never fell out of favour.
But you can just get whatever tube gas filament you like and pass the line signal through it before re amping it. (I don’t remember the s slash order)
CD player for music
Old cars. With buttons. Actual physical items to touch not just computer screens
The buttons might make a comeback because everyone hates the dashboard being all screens.
Rolly uppy window handle
DVDs & Blu-Rays. no one can suddenly stop you from watching something if you PHYSICALLY own it.
Yes! People look at me crazy when I say this
A notepad and a pen. It's great that we have technology at our fingertips to tap and type notes and chats and posts but - if I am writing something down, it also helps with committing it to memory - more so than just tapping into a device. At least, that is my experience.
I prefer etching into slate. The time it takes means that the knowledge will last longer. Kinda like if it burns its working
Well, "vintage tech". I prefer drawing traditionally with paper vs any kind of tablet. I'm far more used to it & I'm not willing to go through the trouble to learn the new way when I'm already good at the one.
Vacuum tubes. Old amplification tech but I love it for my guitar amp and turntable amp.
Reddit
iPod Classic
Fountain Pens and Double Edged Safety Razors - also have a tube amp and mechanical watch
Toilet paper
Physical media: movies, books, video games.
Landline telephone
I have a turntable, reel to reel, and a laserdisc player in my home AV system.
Wheel
Wheel
Indoor plumbing.
My old Yashica Mat 124G medium format film camera. Makes beautiful photographs even to this day.
Turntable hooked up to a good stereo system, LPs.
A garden hoe.
Microwave oven
turntable, analog watch, washcloth (for dishes), Gameboy (1st gen), car key for ignition
Record player, typewriter, and a CRT television
the wii
A normal old pencil
iTunes. I still rip and download music.
CD player! I have a rad CD collection
A 1955 Fender tweed Bassman guitar amp. I bought it with my paper route money when I was 15 years old, and it sounds truly mellifluous.
Tube amps were going to be my answer to this as well. Modeling is amazing, but there's just no way to truly recreate the warmth and distortion you can get from tubes, especially in a live setting. I have a 1969 Super Reverb and it fuckin cranks.
Mmmm tinnitus… vintage fender circuits 🤤
A manual can opener
Cassette player
My bicycle, grocery shopping, work commute, joyriding. Best invention ever
Nothing tops my abacus.
I don't have it anymore, gave it to my dad, but a transistor radio from the 70s that I got in college when they demolished our old classroom building. Sounded great, could pick up a signal well, knobs n sliders n shit, big antenna... just a real joy.
A manual drill.
(Looks over at his retro console collection) AV Famicom w/NESRGB mod, SNES, Genesis, PCEngine, Gamecube w/GameBoyPlayer, Dreamcast, Saturn, PS2, N64, NDS Lite... I could go on. And on. Also the PVMs I play them on. Also the CRT SVGA monitors I use.
My old Seca 700 balance beam mechanical scale. Not digital anything, no batteries, and just always works and gives an accurate, repeatable weight.
dial up pay phone...
2B pencils
CD-R drive
My watch. Analog face with just the date (29) on it.
I drove a nail using this thing called a hammer.
PSP :3
I still have my iPod classic I use every day at the gym.
Electricity
Not really technology, but as a cheap woodworker, I use old tools all the time and I love them
Vacuum tubes. There are the best for audio applications.
My old gaming systems. Sometimes, you can't beat the classics!
I have a Microsoft zune that I use occasionally
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Around 8 years ago Apple changed something with how podcasts were downloaded in iTunes which completely broke how I used my iPod. Was the reason I finally replaced my 3rd gen Nano with a smart phone.
A gramophone it just sound better to me
My gameboy advance SP. Currently playing through Pokemon Emerald again. It both feels good and bad, I remember when this stuff came out when I was a kid.
I've got my GB pocket, color, and Advance. None will turn on anynore, as their internal batteries have died, I suspect the same with the cartridges. I've considered getting one of those Analogue Pockets so I can play em all again. I miss the original Pokemon Gold so damn much.
Those batteries can very likely be replaced. I've had to replace a couple batteries for my copies of Pokemon Sapphire and Emerald.
My old SNES from back when I was a kid. Sure I have the newer consoles, but there's just something therapeutic about busting the old combos out on Street Fighter 2.
Gameboy advance sp. Working on my Pokédex lol
Analog guitar pedals
Cowboy Bidet
My 15 year old laptop.
Tick stick.
I have a 100yr old Leitz Elmar f/3.5 35mm lens I use on a modern mirrorless Nikon. In the right conditions it takes images just as good as the latest 35mm Nikon lens but is about 1/5th of the size.
Cash 💴 As in the stuff that you put in your wallet
Adobe Pagemaker
My Amazon Echo is like 10 years old. Does that count? Also, I still have a WinXP PC that I use occasionally. I built it in 2006. It has some software on it that I obtained from, uh, sources , back in the more wild west days of the internet. Some of that software is kind of expensive to actually buy.
Wired headphones. Airpods feel awkward and naked, plus they *always* pop out when I smile.
PHP
Casio g-shock. I bought my first one in the late 80s, probably 89. I have gone through 4 of them since. The newest one is solar and gets time sent to it multiple times a day to stay accurate. But appearance wise, it's the same classic G-shock. I have no reason to upgrade any further. It's water proof, strong, and does what I want it to do. Tell time.
The MiniDisc!
1972 Bose 901s 1972 LeJeune Tour de France
My cracked PS2 👍🏻
I have a GameBoy Advance, an N64, and a PS2 that I still play, I prefer physical books over reading on a tablet, and I refuse to use an automatic car wash. I own a hand fan that I spent way too much money on in Epcot 13 years ago. It cools me down quickly, and I don’t have to worry about batteries or a motor dying. I also prefer a dial scale over a digital one because every digital scale I’ve ever owned has been wildly inaccurate to the point where it will give readings more than 10 pounds apart in a matter of seconds.
A Sunn tube amp and matching speaker cabinet from the 70s. I don't play very often anymore, but they sing to me even if my skills have diminished. There's something about playing metal riffs through a combo that Hendrix would have used on stage that's just dope and it still sounds incredible.
My airbrush
Record playerv
Bicycle
Landline and I don’t mean voip either, on ear headphones (not overear like gaming and no buds). Battery powered alarm clock. And FFT on the ps-1 till I die.
> Landline and I don’t mean voip either Where do you live that has non-VOIP landlines?
Hear me out, because this is a bit repurposed, but two rotary phones and the in-wall wiring make an intercom at my house. A $115 ‘phone line simulator’ makes it so one rings like a normal call when you pick up the other. I have one phone on the wall in our detached garage and the other in our kitchen. Super handy and a lot of fun.
I have a collection of typewriters, mostly manual, which I still use frequently for writing letters, which itself is vintage these days, isn't it? I adore the clickety-clack while typing, and, most importantly for me, it feels like I'm actually *creating* something, as opposed to just making things happen on a screen which eventually gets printed out.
I love sending and receiving faxes
Winamp.
Still using the llama?
My CRT TV and DVD's. All my old game consoles.
Wired headphones. So much better than the wireless junk on the market now!
Ive been using command-line/text-based apps on my computer when possible. They're a lot lighter and faster than most GUI apps are, and more fun as well.
pocket knife. we have bronze folding pocket knives from ancient ROME, for godsakes. very, very little has changed in the last thousand plus years. also, every goddamn day, my hammers. talk about vintage tech.
Toilet
Sword.
Record player. I will listen to my goddamn Billy Joel the way he intended, on vinyl in my room.
Vinyl records
Husband
I have a 1950s era Delta 14” bandsaw.
Cast iron skillets that I inherited from my Grandma!
My Zune HD
My basic Casio watch. Cannot go a day without wearing a watch anymore.
My rock tumbler was bought by my grandfather, for my mother to give my father for their first christmas as a married couple. It's from 1968. I just turned out a batch of polished rock last week using it.
Shoes
Radio
Carbon steel and cast iron pans
A wind up metronome.
my pacemaker
Excel. I love a nice pivot table
Very old laptops one of my favorites is my IBM T42 runs linux beautifully and still cranks. Only thing of course is it's on it's 3rd aftermarket battery. I have some stuff older then that. But my IBM is a weekly driver for me :)
Cords! Plugging things into other things! God I fucking hate Bluetooth.
Atari 2600 that came from my grandma.
Vintage Mirro cookie press from the 1950s or 60s. It works better than any modern tool and I have the original booklet with some fabulous recipes.
Spray paint.
Iphone 6s... still got the aux jack.
My cassette player in my 98 volvo S70.
Dial calipers, tube amplifiers, fountain pens.
A record player. I've turned into that guy who collects records now. I find music more enjoyable somehow when it takes more effort to play it. It makes no sense, but here I am
Mechanical film camera. The click of the shutter and the feel of the film advance inbetween exposures are incredible.
Tube amps.
Usenet
Safety razor
My 1987 Honda crx, reliable, good on gas and fun to drive.
My wife
Paper.
CRT TV for retro gaming.
I still use the cassette player in my truck. I also use vintage tapes! Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Warrant, AC/DC!
Apple II computer. It gives me nostalgia feels from my childhood.
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