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Ask HN: What’s the oldest piece of technology you still use?
- chovy 6y agothe wheel.
- Aeronwen 6y agofire
- nonsapreiche 6y agothe adze
- Finnucane 6y agoFire, a few times a day. It's quite useful. Or do you mean 'oldest technological artifact' you still use? I have a banjo that was made in 1895. Not techy enough for you? Maybe a c. 1960 waffle iron? An old cast-iron skillet?
- emteycz 6y agoLate 1970's radio
- yokoprime 6y agoElectromagnetism
- helph67 6y agoI trust that you salute Faraday once in a while?
- thedevindevops 6y agoGlazed pottery
- URfejk 6y agoBrain.
- krasicki 6y agofork
- sloaken 6y agohammer, early model was called a rock.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoEmacs. ftp. bash. I have a computer game, copyright 1996 (IIRC). I played it last night. Some of my dinner plates are 30 years old. I have a pocket knife that was my grandfather's. I don't actually use it, though.
- non-entity 6y agoJsig6jwiguy
- kleer001 6y agoRegularly : A blade Every once in a while: A rock to smash something Rarely : fire
- helph67 6y agoPaper, introduced ~25 A.D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper
- dmos62 6y agoMyself
- PestoDiRucola 6y agoElectricity
- giardini 6y agoRock, used as hammer, knife sharpener, knife, scraper, particle weapon, etc. Do I win? Anyone got a tool older than rocks?
- muzani 6y agoDo you actually use it as a hammer?
- gesman 6y agoTrue IBM clicky keyboard. ~1995. Made in USA.
- krapp 6y ago2001 Ford Escort ZX2. Manual transmission, manual locks, no firmware or spyware, no chance the entertainment system can be hacked to remotely disable the brakes. It has a tape deck FFS.