I would still use RS-232 if I needed to connect something with it, since I still think it is good (although many of the messy things are unfortunate, but it als

I would still use RS-232 if I needed to connect something with it, since I still think it is good (although many of the messy things are unfortunate, but it also has many good features). If I designed a new computer, it would probably have RS-232. I still use Usenet (and some other people still use it too), with NNTP. In fact, I started using Usenet only a few years ago. The Usenet provider named "Eternal September" is the one I currently use, and was named due to the 1993 mentioned there. I don't use Google Groups and all spam I have seen on Usenet these days comes from Google, and I hate it and some other people say similarly, that they would reject messages from Google. I also used FidoNet, but that was longer ago, and it was with internet. (It might still be in use; I am unsure.) Of course I know of FTP (I don't use it and I think that HTTP is much better), Gopher (I still sometimes use), etc. Mostly ANSI terminal emulators are used today, although xterm also supports Tektronix emulation as well, although as far as I know nobody uses it these days (I have only used it once). I know of the games before GUIs, and even still play some of those older games these days (and have written some). Of course, I know what ASCII and UTF-8 are, although I mostly don't use UTF-8; I mostly use purely ASCII (and when needing non-ASCII, prefer character sets other than Unicode). Some of my (modern) designs do use the ASCII controls for similar meanings than their original uses. Actually, it is not only myself; even a mode in the SQLite command shell, and some other formats I have seen, are able to use the ASCII separator controls for those purposes. It is rare, but there are a few people who have made use of them. Also, you will sometimes see notations such as "^H" and "^W" where strike through is unavailable. CTRL+G for bells is still used on terminal emulators at least what I use (and the NNTP client that I had written will use that to ring the bell once the download of a set of articles is complete). Actually, even sometimes when I play the GURPS over the computer, we will use the bell to notify the other side that we are ready. And, of course CRLF will still be used when working with DOS programs (and, fortunately vi can be switched to CRLF or LF only mode, so this is useful when you are using it to edit DOS programs). I have not used 36-bit computers nor punched cards, although I have used emulations of punched cards. I also dislike the syntax for octal literals in C (starting with "0o" instead of just "0" would be better, or starting with "8#" like in PostScript would be another way), although I do sometimes use octal (although it is rare; I use hexadecimal much more often, and so does everyone else).