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What old thing surprisingly still exists? (lemmy.world)

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[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 131 points 4 months ago

Fax machines.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

The amount of "modern" companies I had to fax shit too when my dad died was infuriating! Hyundai, Target, etc etc etc. Email is a thing dumb ass companies! Fuck me.

[-] gummi134@fedinsfw.app 40 points 4 months ago

Many government departments and private companies consider faxed documents as a duplicated "original", instead of a copy. Because that totally makes sense.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 months ago

IT MEANS FASCIMILE GOD DAMNIT

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Fax may outlast landline telephony.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago

It already has. Vast majority of companies still handling fax are using VoIP fax modems with digital receivers that turn it into a PDF. I haven't seen a functioning copper landline probably since 2015...

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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 99 points 4 months ago

The baths on the Titanic still hold water today

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single water molecule than there are stars in the entire solar system!

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[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 96 points 4 months ago

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

Somebody saying "bless you" to someone else who sneezes

The president

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bless you is such a weird way to respond to a sneeze though. Fitting for the clusterfuck the english language is tbh.

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[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 80 points 4 months ago

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

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

It's his hundredth birthday in 2 days!

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 64 points 4 months ago

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

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

To be fair my old high school acquaintances swear their oils made from magic plants literally healed their child's cancer and my kid is only autistic because we took her to a doctor one time years ago.

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

The album thing has bothered me for a long time. There are now tons of “internet artists” that all seem to release one or two singles every six months and that’s just how they release music.

Albums aren’t just about a limitation of the medium. It’s about putting a concept together that’s bigger than a 3-5 minute idea you had one day. It’s about capturing a time of that artist’s or group’s life and progress. It gives you the chance to bind all of those tracks together and organize them in a way that you think will help guide your audience.

With single-only releases, you may never really get to know the artist or what emotion they may be trying to convey in a greater sense. Or worse, all of their singles just sound like “them” and never evolve beyond that.

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[-] brillotti@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

We're in a bit of a renaissance!

Kodak just put out brand new Kodacolor 200 and Ektachrome 100 film

I've not even got one developed yet!

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Hell I just got my daughter a disposable camera for her school camping trip. No electronics allowed but they encouraged them to bring those. I was surprised to find one. I told her (11yrs) it was a one time use camera. The look on her face was priceless. She looked at me as if I were dumb and said, "so it takes one freaking picture?? That's stupid, my phone takes all the photos I want!" She got further confused when I explained why there was no screen and how she had to get those photos lol.

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[-] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

[-] DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online 12 points 4 months ago

Came here to say this.

[-] EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Now that's rude :(

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 months ago

Twinings Tea has been in business since 1706.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Zildjian, the cymbal company, was started in 1623.

[-] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 months ago

Fascism.

[-] Hisse@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

Hey, it's neo now.

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[-] flabbergast@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

Religion. And it all needs to go.

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[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 months ago

"Your mom" jokes.

Also, your mom.

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[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 25 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oxford University started sometime around the year 1100.

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 23 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Trump.

[-] Bitflip@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

Combustion engines

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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Facebook.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] orenj@leminal.space 15 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] lauha@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Civilization started somewhere around 12 thousand years ago

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[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 4 months ago

craigslist

[-] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago

RIP missed connections. Local radio used to read them on Wednesday mornings. Pure gold.

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[-] bargh@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Teletext

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 12 points 4 months ago

MSN Explorer, the browser, got an update in 2021. You can still download it. https://membercenter.msn.com/download.aspx

There's a screenshot on the Wikipedia page.

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