Some of my coworkers were talking about using RSS to read blogs, which made some of the younger folks in our team ask what it is and why we keep using it.

Some still use iPods to avoid subscriptions and streaming services, my favorite was one of our sysadmins who showed me Gopher.

I’m curious about others though, thanks!

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    As physical tech:

    • we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.

    As digital tech:

    • Comma Separated Values as a notation predates computers. Then CSV has been used as a computer file format at least since one of the Fortran variants added support in 1972.

    • The implementation has changed as filesystems evolve but the basic directory/file model of data storage and the associated tools ls/dir, cd, rm/del have been around a while. ls has been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back to listfon CTSS in 1961.

    Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.

    • needanke@feddit.org
      7·
      3 months ago

      we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.

      Aren’t those just standard door knobs? Like which others are there (besides maybe smarthome/electronic stuff, but that’s not really widespread esp. for home use)?

      • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        A “Smart” Lock on your home is going backwards on centuries worth of progress as far as your security is concerned.

        At this point, it’s so common knowledge that smart locks are so easy to pick/bypass/break into, quietly too, that I can’t help but think they must attract thieves just cuz they look so wild and different and function so terribly.

      • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Aren’t those just standard door knobs?

        Exactly, those two are pretty standard.options.

        As far as door latches go the cross bar and draw bolts probably predate it by thousands of years but I don’t use those regularly.

    • TunaLobster@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      CSV is honestly one of my preferred ways of stacking up data. It’s so easily transferable between languages and systems. It’s always human readable too! There are older tools that I work with that spit out “fixed-width” formats, but then go and fuck it up by not aligning the headers to the columns making parsing is a pain in the ass. CSV would be so much better.