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Our society structure. Society is still structured with a few persons living extravagantly like kings on the top, while the masses are mostly content with mediocre scraps.

Also I’m in the UK, visited the next town over last week and walked past a pub and thought, that looks like a pretty old building.. turns out the pub was built and has been running as a pub since the 1500s

Cashiers not being able to sit down

My place of work has a telex machine in the corner still.. I presume if a message comes in on that it is because ww3 happened.. it just sits there and makes me feel slightly anxious to consider it.

Patriarchy

Paper visas. You have my passport number, is it not enough to check if I have valid avisa?

Rudy Giuliani

Hammers, irrigation systems, smithing.. etc

Not sure if any of it counts as surprising after rereading the prompt

Moneygrams

vacuum tubes

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.