Retro Librarian · @LibrarianRA
2916 followers · 1392 posts · Server worldkey.io
Mark A. Rayner · @markarayner
1426 followers · 773 posts · Server mas.to
Cliff · @cliffwade
812 followers · 4150 posts · Server allthingstech.social

Comment below with your score. Remember, it's one point for each thing that you have NOT done on this list. Tell us which of the things you've not done as well!

My score: ZERO!

I've done everything on this list mainly due to how old I am. 🤪

Thanks to @bkm for posting this as that's where I saw it first.

#retrostuff #oldtechnology #blockbuster #cd #walkman #vhs

Last updated 1 year ago

Retro Librarian · @LibrarianRA
1684 followers · 831 posts · Server worldkey.io
Mark62 · @Mark62
53 followers · 310 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

This must be over 20 years old, bought instead of an iPod as it has a built in FM radio. Been in the drawer for years, let's see if it'll hold a charge. Iriver H10 with 20gb hard drive

#musicplayer #oldtechnology

Last updated 2 years ago

Retro Librarian · @LibrarianRA
1648 followers · 790 posts · Server worldkey.io
Rogue Soul · @roguesoul
28 followers · 13 posts · Server toot.wales

Been stumbling around the attic (finding things I forgot I had) and re-discovered some old mobile phones: A Panasonic G520 (which I misremembered as a Nokia) - originally my father's 'work' phone c1998. Also, an NEC e616 which was an early 3G phone c2003.

#oldtechnology #oldtech #ancienthistory #digitalarcheology #nece616 #panasonicg520 #nec #panasonic #mobilephones #mobilephone #cellphones #cellphone #oldman #horror #3g

Last updated 2 years ago

Jeremy Tekell · @TekellJ
338 followers · 875 posts · Server denton.social
Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
206 followers · 995 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Actually opened this box from forgotten technology that has been following me since 1977 and was delighted to find several pages of typewritten diary in amongst bad short stories and poems from high school.
Erasable typing paper had a weird tooth and a bit of a coating that allowed one to erase before the ribbon ink dried. It was noticeable, but all corrections in those days were.

#type #typing #typewriting #typewriter #typewriters #typewriterpaper #oldtechnology #oldtech

Last updated 2 years ago

Fnord · @fnord
1 followers · 38 posts · Server 23.illuminati.org

I'm not sure why people are so impressed with the "human-handled" aspect of vinyl record production. It's certainly nothing new. kottke.org/23/02/how-vinyl-rec

#vinylrecords #oldtechnology #nothingspecial

Last updated 2 years ago

dougzone 🇨🇦 · @dougzone22_ca
84 followers · 186 posts · Server thecanadian.social

@ben, it was more like Civil War propaganda!

#oldtechnology

Last updated 2 years ago

MediaArea · @MediaArea
87 followers · 7 posts · Server mastodon.social

released, with focus on support of text encodings (ASCII, UTF8, ISO8859 1/2, CP 437, CP 850, CP 858, Windows 1252).

#bwfmetaedit #oldtechnology

Last updated 2 years ago

Oceans Craig · @wavygk
277 followers · 189 posts · Server mastodon.nz

always late to and this one doesn't even have the C but it does hang out in my office taking up space... a work of mechanical genius... BathyThermograph that puts T profiles on to little glass slides... "kids today just don't unders...."

#ctdappreciationday #oceanography #oldtechnology #ctd

Last updated 2 years ago

EdTech Situation Room · @edtechsr
25 followers · 18 posts · Server mastodon.education
scandrof · @scandrof
166 followers · 1538 posts · Server aus.social

One thing not mentioned in this article is that cassette tapes were also very bad for the environment. When I drove from Sydney to Darwin in 1985 & returned in 1986 (a round trip of just under 10,000 km), no matter where I stopped along the highway I would almost always spot some discarded tape tangled in the bushes or gravel alongside the road. The tape had most likely been thrown away after getting jammed in a vehicle's cassette player.

The article also reminded me of something I read a long time ago about a solo around-the-world yachtsman who lamented that there was no part of the planet free from pollution. He constantly saw glistening slicks of oil that had leaked from ships floating on the water's surface.

Some past technologies deserve revival, but not every piece of old technology was a boon: Why Taylor Swift is wrong about the cassette tape smh.com.au/culture/music/why-t

#cassette #mixtape #oldtechnology #tech #technology #music #environment #pollution

Last updated 2 years ago

techandcoffee · @techandcoffee
483 followers · 1269 posts · Server techhub.social
Retro Tech Shop · @retrotechshop
1 followers · 2 posts · Server techhub.social
G 🇮🇹 · @ranx
102 followers · 11310 posts · Server mastodon.social

it's the Millenium Bug! 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🐛
been there... but the old Olivetti LSX we had in the office didn't care, year was two digit, so it kept going. new server was NT4, not affected and so were the Windows 98 clients.

#server #windows #oldtechnology

Last updated 2 years ago

Chris Tarr · @TheGeekJedi
56 followers · 256 posts · Server mastodon.social

I finally found my Blockbuster card! I better hurry over before someone rents the last copy of “Deuce Bigalo European Gigolo” on VHS!

#oldtechnology #artifacts

Last updated 2 years ago

GRC · @GRC
38 followers · 577 posts · Server mindly.social