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!
Fire.
Fire and rocks, the OG of technology.
Fire isn’t technology any more than water and electricity are. The tools to create or utilize it are the technology part. But since I don’t use a firebowv or flint striker routinely, it’s the wheel for me, baby.
I use a wheel almost everyday still
Me use fire. Fire hot. Make food good
Where your stick? Me have good stick. Very pointy.
Me use stick make fire. Need new stick hold meat on fire. Where you find good stick?
Bush stick, bush burn, bush taste a little acidic, wrong bush.
BIG cloud dihydrogen go squishhh. Make food. Me climb hierarchy. Me eat fusion photonic self replicating solar panel.
Somebody gave me firaaaaaah
I’m pretty sure I got a lever around here somewhere
I’ve got some wheels on my car still. I think my furnace uses fire when it turns on.
Bicycle
Stick, great for getting stuff out of holes
Stick, great for putting stuff into holes.
And, break stick in half, get two sticks.
That’s real value right there.
I ude Emacs as my peferred text editor.
As physical tech:
- we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.
As digital tech:
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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.
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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.
lshas been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back tolistfon CTSS in 1961.
Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.
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)?
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.
I eat bread, I drink beer too. Those technologies are both around 40k years old iirc. In terms of computing, probably a calendar, time, or a GBA depending on your definition of computing
The wheel.
Are you not using knifes?
IPv4? Email? Gas fireplace?
I guess if you want a real answer it’s probably the terminal? I prefer terminal over GUI generally speaking.
Terminal for ever!!!
A pencil.
Knives.
Inclined plane. Arguably older than fire. Used as a part of a pointy stick.
How’d you get up there?
By walking forward.
?!??
Behold: hills
RSS is the first app I would install on new devices if they didn’t automatically migrate all my apps and data for me. That there are people who know about RSS and don’t use it surprises me, somewhat.
Im 42 been using the internet since i had a 386sx. Been using firefox since it was still netscape navigator. Had a hotmail account from befode microsoft bought it.
I still dont understand how to use rss or what it actually is
Do you pay for yours, or what? I tried to get into RSS, but I wasn’t in the mood to pay for it.
I’ve been a paying customer of Reeder app and NetNewsWire before that. I believe NNW might be free now. These are on Apple platforms.
It is free and open source, it’s my main RSS app on Mac / iOS, and I downloaded Feeder from F-Droid for Android
I like Feeder as a free Android option
I was never able to get back into RSS once Google killed reader. I never found an interface I liked, and it seemed like sites weren’t supporting it as much, so I just kinda forgot about it.
The wheel, rope, fire.
I’ve used a chisel before, but yeah, fire is the oldest I use on a regular basis.
Chisel is just a type of blade or wedge. Equivalent to an axe or even just a a napped flint edge really.
I dont know if there’s any way to know whether fire (as a purposely used technology) predates axe/wedge/blade concept.
I’d guess that axes blades and wedges predate wheels due to being a lot simpler.
I guess abrasives are also very simple.
Spoons, which predate forks, fire, and wheels by about two million years.
“Ima need a citation on that 2 million years info.” — Chopsticks
Is fire even technology? It just exists in nature. 🤷🏻♂️
Its viewed as such.
The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans
I guess that makes me a tinkerer.
arsonistinventor
What did they eat with spoons before fire?
I know certain plant-based foods are naturally stewy inside, though I can’t speak for our prehistoric ancestors on what their intentions were. Most sources though suggest broth.
Ah yes. No stoneage party was complete without a melon baller.
