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What's the oldest piece of technology you use everyday?

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The only relevant thing that comes to mind is the fridge I use daily that has likely existed since before time had a name
 
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I am wearing a mechanical watch that I like quite a bit, despite its ridiculous impracticality. I like to look at the gears spinning eternally in its clear caseback. I like to listen to it literally tick. A quartz watch would be cheaper and more accurate. I focus on practicality in most things in life, but for this, it's nice to focus on aesthetics above anything else.
 
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i use a dvd player to play and rip DVDs. not that old but its nice to have. so far i ripped a couple of nirvana, Guns N' Roses albums, and some Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley too.
 
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Oldest peace of tech I use are 3.5in floppy drives. They are useful for storing encryption keys, installation software, books, save game data, and anything that you would want to load up onto a fresh install of a OS. You can also play old share-ware games, use old software, and even install operating systems off of them if you know how to convince the OS that your computer is infact at 1980s super computer.
 

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I guess my oldest piece of technology Is a Dell latitude E6500. It's running a super lightweight version of Linux called crunchbang++, which allows it to boot up completely in about 8 seconds. It mostly of sentimental value to me, as when I was in high school It was given to me by my computer science teacher. He taught me everything about file systems, and was the one who got me into Linux and networking in the first place. He was also a really good friend because he was only 2 or 3 years older than me when he was working there.

It's just a neat laptop that has things that you don't find anymore like expansion bays, a physical internet on/off button on the side, and a phone line port. I especially love the tiny mouse in between the g and h keys that laptops used to have. When he gave it to me is was running a much older version of crunchbang Linux, so I reinstalled the OS and kept the system name as a sort of reminder.
 
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ALso, another old piece technology is something called the "wheel" It's like a circle or something and helps you get from point A to point B quicker and I heard they were a thing since the copper age. So yeah, its pretty old and stuff.
 
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I actually have a very old Chinon Super 8 camera I bought off someone online and it actually works, I've shot a couple of videos with it. Probably 70s or 80s.
I love the super 8 look, I want to use it more often but it can get a bit pricey shooting on film, specially since each individual cartridge is only like 3 minutes of footage.
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I could film flies on dung and it would be KINO.
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i regularly use my yamaha CR-840 receiver alongside mitsubish dp-ec7 turntable from late 70s early 80s, they are connected to my old kirksaeter speakers alongside new sony and kenwood ones but i don't remember the exact model numbers. Other than that i regularly use toshiba satellite s1800 from early 2000s or late 90s dont really remember the exact date. 512mb ram 1ghz celeron, works like a charm with win2k and kernelex, but it started to give weird errors with its bios for some reason so im thinking of disassembling it and using its plastic parts and lcd screen to create a live console for weather and pihole i've set up.
 

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My handwatch was a seiko. My grandfather bought it secondhand from a construction worker and gifted it to my father when he was 15 soo there is at least 30+ years of life in it. I broke the Cordon and the pin that changes the clock soo it isn't not doing well rn but just 6 months ago it was running perfectly fine and i had it on me everyday. The second oldest is a 2010 laptop.
 
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