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Fax machines.

The baths on the Titanic still hold water today

A 5-day, 40 hour work week "standard"

Somebody saying "bless you" to someone else who sneezes

The president

David Attenborough, and I hope he's around for as long as he wants to be.

homeopathy. you'd think germ theory would have killed it, but no.

Honestly vinyl records, and I say this as a collector with joy

I think it's kinda surprising when you think that most people who enjoy music in 2026 have access to a good percentage of all music ever recorded as part of their music streaming subscription.

It warms my heart that there's enough people out there who don't give a shit about the level of convenience provided by streaming that ultimately erodes the work of an artist, and they choose to buy an expensive plastic circle instead

Tracks on an album are intended to be listened to in the context of that album. To normalise pulling pieces out and ignoring the rest is kinda destructive to the artists' intent.

Vinyl records are kinda the antithesis to that mindset. You're kinda forced to engage with the album as an atomic piece of art

So for me it's not just surprising, but a thing of beauty

Film production and development. Yesterday I dropped off a couple rolls of 120 film shot on a 60 year old camera at a lab to develop and print it for me.

Twinings Tea has been in business since 1706.

Religion. And it all needs to go.

Fascism.

Me

Horseshoe crab. These things existed before DINOS! AND ARE STILL AROUND!

"Your mom" jokes.

Also, your mom.

Japanese here, it is still crazy people need to bring a big wooden stemp around to sign government documents and contracts. and bringing physical documents around in a suitcase.

Oxford University started sometime around the year 1100.

Leather burnishers have been pretty much unchanged for 50,000 years

Trump.

Cnidarians. (The sort of animals that includes jellyfish and sea anenomes and coral and such). Theyre so old that the first known predatory animal as far as I'm aware was one of them, and some of them still resemble those ancient versions to a significant degree. Even tho every time theres a mass extinction corals seem to be some of the first things to go, and jellyfish tend to be slow, stupid and not very good at controlling where they go, it somehow works out for them.

Cobol on old systems that are too ancient to touch but are generally fine as long as you don’t touch them.

Facebook.

Combustion engines

Someone sent me a link to a file through Limewire today. That had its heyday so long ago that I think this is actually the first time I've ever used it.

Vinyl records. Its a very... space inefficient way to store your music, but they are pretty to look at.

craigslist

Credit card imprinters. Went to a car rental that required a card to be swiped with that thing. Needless to say the card got canceled the second it got in there lol

The Amiga.
The latest update of AmigaOS was October 2025. MorphOS (which I'm using): January 2025.
The latest "complete" new hardware I'm aware of is Apollo Accelerator's A6000 from September 2025.

Civilization started somewhere around 12 thousand years ago