A car without an internet connection.

My wired headphones.

iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.

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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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

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.

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

Doorknobs.

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

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

Tech that still works, I'll continue to use it till it dies. Then I'll try to revive it, and if I can't, then I'll upgrade. My main PC is over 10 years old.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Original DS Lite.

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

The potential is limitless.

XMonad

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.

My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.

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 ten year old desktop.

My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made

Sony PCM-M10 field recorder Olympia Travel Typewriter Olympus mju2 point and shoot camera

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

Dumb tv.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

my second monitor says 2009 on the back. still use it. like it more than my main 2016 one which is itself about to turn a decade old.

GIFs

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!

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.

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!

We still enjoy using the fireplace, even though our home is heated.

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.)

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.

• 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.

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 2 HP printers from the early 2000s

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

I love my double edge razor.s.

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 modded new 3DS LL

Baskets and wheels.

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.

Vinyl player.

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.

Me, sweating as I look around my office.

• 3DConnexion SpaceExplorer
• DOS era Gravis controller
• Windows XP era Gravis controller
• Windows XP
• Fountain pens
• Mechanical watches
• Gameboy
• HP-41C calculator
• Old, chrome flashlights

I don't really know where to stop this list. I love old stuff.

I still use CRTs on occasion.

I haven't used iPods for like 25 years now, but I always liked that you could instantaneously switch songs, and on modern streaming apps I sometimes need to wait for like a second, because it does god knows what in the meantime.

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).

Does my 1080Ti count?

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.

I have an old flatbed scanner that I occasionally use. I bought it in 2003 or 2004. For scanning I use an old 2010 Macbook Pro still running on MacOS X 10.6.8. The scanner software ist written for Power PC, and MacOS X is the last OS that can execute the software. The scanner still works perfectly fine. Some time ago I found out that there is third party software availiable that probably runs on recent macOS installations, but since I refuse to pay for it, I transfer the scanned documents with a thumb drive onto my M1 Macbook Pro. I tried to connect my recent Macbook Pro with my 2010 Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, but I couldn't get them to transfer files between them, although they detect each other in the Bluetooth settings. I suspect that it is a compatibility issue, as there is a huge age gap between both operating systems (∼ 15 years)

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?

My LG V20. No current phone can replace the functionality of it. I'm dreading the day the apps I use for work stop working on it and I have to buy some POS modern phone and I can't do half the shit I currently do.

My 2070gtx

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.

Most of my peripherals honestly, my monitors are all 10-20 years old, my keyboard is a like 30 year old Dell AT101W, I only replaced my old Logitech G35 headphones when they literally fell to pieces

Define "outdated".

My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it's been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc... So while it's now hit that bottleneck of "can't upgrade anymore because it's at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle", I don't consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.

A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don't see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.

My iPhone mini.

My two favorite classics Ade my GBA (tho its nodded now) and my Sony WM-EX631 cassette Walkman.

A horse.

• Pebble Time Steel (2015)

  • Helps me use my phone less, timers/alarms/stopwatch, rings my phone when lost, sleep tracking

• Galaxy Buds Plus (2020)

  • No frills, battery life is excellent due to no ANC, compact charging case

• Soundfreaq Sound Spot (2013)

  • Easy to use, hook up two for stereo, sounds fine to my ear, found another recently for $20