“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On

The world is accelerating fast and we — the consumers — are playing catch-up. New gadgets and software updates promise to make our lives better, so we follow the latest innovations with anticipation, hoping to find a way to integrate them into our daily routine.

But as the trends march onward, some people choose the opposite approach and reject them, opting for things they have already been using for years. So when a thread emerged on Reddit, asking everyone to share the "obsolete" piece of technology they refuse to relinquish, many had their say.

From vinyl records to physical maps, here's the list of "relics" that still have their place in our hearts and homes.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On I’m a school librarian - print books are nowhere near as obsolete as people seem to think. Kids still devour them!

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Regular buttons in a car instead of touch screen everything.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On I want my physical media. When all these companies start pulling licenses, selling them to new people, making it harder to access content, I want to be able to pull my Blu-ray, DVD, CD, or whatever other media it’s in off the shelf and watch it.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On USB drives for data storage.

I have trust issues with cloud servers, and dislike the idea of personal data being stored on file servers that I do not own and control.

"The Cloud" is nearly impossible to avoid entirely; I just minimize my use of it in favor of local backups with planned resilience and redundancy.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Paper maps are considered by many to be obsolete, but they are essential for hiking or just being in an area away from civilization where cell service can be unreliable to nonexistent.

Edit: I've had about 100 replies informing me that maps can be saved so they work offline. I am aware of this. However it doesn't do much good when hiking on remote trails that aren't marked in any online maps. It doesn't help when you've unexpectedly driven into a large dead zone and didn't know to save maps in advance. And it doesn't help when leaving the phone behind for an overnight kayaking trip because of the risk of dropping the phone in the river. .

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Daya Meyer 7 months ago

"As long as the battery works..." is not long enough sometimes.

122points

Thomas Olsen 7 months ago

or pack a portable solar panel and drag that around as well, excess baggage

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WhiteClawOfDeath 7 months ago

As a fellow hiker, I confirm paper maps are more practical and of a sturdy material

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ZGutr 7 months ago (edited)

Paper map any time but especially long-distance. If you zoom out on a digital map, you loose a lot of secondary roads, and those I prefer (very VERY often better for time, fuel and views)

12points

Jeevesssssss 7 months ago

Yes! As a horse rider, trying to plan a longer ride with a digital map (when obviously I prefer to stick to bridleways and quieter roads) is next-to-impossible. Brandishing flapping paper maps around a horse isn't a sensible move, though (a lot of horses will find it scary) so it's important to know your route well beforehand so you can use your phone's maps if you need some help navigating.

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Robert T 7 months ago

I still have a road atlas in the car. I don't use it, but it is there in case of emergencies. Before satnav, I used to use it to plan my journeys for work.

11points

Jack Burton 7 months ago

For hiking that's absolutely necessary. In France we have really good hiking maps i'm fond of. Can't be lost with them. And i even drive around europe with real atlas maps cause i had bad experiences with GPS.

5points

Timbob 7 months ago

I’m always afraid that if I, or the mapping program screws up, I’ll be completely LOST ! Not with a paper map !

4points

Javelina Poppers 7 months ago

I have a collection of topograhic survey maps that are invaluable to me. They helped me locate a spring not listed on any other map to replenish my canteens.

4points

Wilf 7 months ago

I would NEVER tackle a hike without a printed OS map and a proper compass. To rely on something that needs batteries to help you in an emergency is simply inviting trouble.

3points

EmBree 7 months ago

Mom finds the maps online and print the relevant parts. I'm all in support of her.

2points

Francois 7 months ago

Plenty of apps that sow hiking paths, such as AllTrail, Ordnance Survey has a app too. There is a lot more out there than Google maps

2points

Octavia Hansen 7 months ago

Maps will show points of interest or spark curiosity instead of a straight drive where you only see the backs of trucks. The road less traveled, the beginning of an adventure . . .

2points

Blue Bunny of Happiness 7 months ago

Give me a book of maps any day. It is annoying though that the bit you want is always at the edge of the page! Being able to look at an area in full, in a size that you can see gives me so much more of an understanding of the relationship between places.

2points

John Dilligaf 7 months ago

also you can laminate your hiking maps to make them waterproof. Good luck using that phone in a drenching downpour

1point

megasmacky 7 months ago

Long road trip requirements- junk food, good music, paper map.

1point

Lynne Rider 3 months ago

With a paper map you get context about where you are or where you’re going and how to get there.

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jaimedannie 7 months ago

Maps go out of date very quickly. Also they don't give you traffic or construction updates.

0points

eMp Tee 7 months ago

1. Topographical survey maps show the contours of the terrain for more accurate calculation of distance to travel. 2. Compass to maintain direction of travel. 3. Learn to do a resection to confirm your location (draw a reverse compass bearing line from at least two visible locations, identifiable on the map, The intersection of the lines indicate you position on the map). No batteries required...

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Nancy Hayssen 7 months ago

Also physical maps are A LOT LARGER to view than a small screen 😀

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Vadertime 7 months ago

Also include nautical charts.

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R jD 7 months ago

You don't need cell service. You need GPS. As long as the satellites don't fail you'll be fine with just your phone.

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R jD 7 months ago

You don't need cell service for maps. You need GPS. so u less all the satellites fall from the sky, your phone is still all you need.

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Jen 7 months ago

Paper maps are also great with kids,. Give each one thier own and let them trace the route as you drive with a marker or crayon and give them each a turn (or many just rotate fairly) to pick an extra small stop along the way.

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mikejaz2 7 months ago

Really, you wanna scrunch up your eyes to see an itty bitty phone map, or unfold a BIG print map? I rest my case.

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Maggie Fulton 7 months ago

Miss them. Easy to see a large area clearly all at once.

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Jaguarundi 7 months ago

When hiking I always brought a paper map, a compass, water, emergency food, first aid kit, a mirror, a whistle and a safety blanket. You never know.

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Donald Bohn 7 months ago

If you've ever lived through a hurricane...

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Joanne Earle 7 months ago

I always bring a road atlas and we've needed it in places with no cell service like northern Arizona. Total dead zone there.

0points

Amberlie Mikelsen 7 months ago

"As long as the battery works" doesn't do a lick of good when you suddenly enter an area where ABSOLUTELY NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES FUNCTION AT ALL!!! Yes, I have personally encountered over a dozen of these zones across the United States and not a single one of them was labeled warning of them! Part of this is because GPS doesn't work in those areas, so they can't get exact fixes on them to mark them on maps. The other part is that they're usually (although by no means always) remote enough that there's no reasonable excuse for taking electronics into those places in the first place! You want pictures of the natural places? Take a disposable film camera! You want to post those pictures to social media? YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE SIGNAL OUT THERE ANYWAY!

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Jen 7 months ago

The camera doesnt even need to be cheap or disposable. My SLR still works in areas that no electronics work, and gives far superior pictures.

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Russell Bowman 7 months ago

A favorite movie line: " Because some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say, "There be dragons here." Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there."

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Helen Rohrlach 7 months ago

If you're relying on the online map and the towers drop out unexpectedly, having the Map book in the car is a life saver.

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Nikki Gross 7 months ago (edited)

I keep maps in the dashboard of my car because Sat Nav and GPS doesn't always work and the battery can die really fast on your phone.

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Elizabeth Joseph 7 months ago

I like my GPS. Maps are out of date quickly with new roads being built constantly. However, everyone should be able to read a map even with a GPS since a GPS might not be up to date either.

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Chelsea McKee 7 months ago

Print maps don't require a battery, folks. However I'm so bloody specific Im not entirely sure most print maps would work for me. The GPS will tell me to go straight, and I'll triple check I'm headed straight in the correct direction. This one time I took a trip with my grandparents and the grand GPS VS print maps argument came into play, it was a lot of fun.

0points

Guess Undheit 7 months ago

I have local book maps for the country I live in, and get print tourist maps when on holiday. Show me how to add a post it note on a GPS device. [ ........................... ] As for maps on your phone, most cities (even small ones) offer free PDF or JPG files to download. You can put them on your phone or print them out (or both). Randomly, I picked out Lewiston, Montana (pop. 6000) and found this: https://centralmontana.com/maps/detailedmontanacitymaps.pdf

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Shannimal 7 months ago

I always keep maps in my car

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Wendy Me 7 months ago

I LOVE paper maps and atlases, especially on a road-trip. Driving from Vermont to Oregon was such an amazing experience and being able to look at the surroundings and readjusting the route to see things I hadn't considered before made it that much more enjoyable.

0points

detective miller's hat 7 months ago

This is why I keep a road atlas in the car.

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TotallyNOTAFox 7 months ago (edited)

I always use the satelite image function from Google Maps, either saved on my phone or printed out alongside a paper map - So far I never got lost

0points

Regina Holt 7 months ago

I loved having paper maps. Where I live there used to be these ADP maps that I loved. I had one for each surrounding county. I could plot my route easily, and see everything to scale.Plus, I liked the tangible feel of the paper. I stopped buying them because where I lived development was happening so fast, roads were changing, it was sad. I'm in the usa

0points

HTakeover 7 months ago

If you're on a trail, it's in one of the trail apps. Maybe not the one you use, but it's there. But yeah, always carry paper even if only as a backup.

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Steve 7 months ago

Plus, online maps are hard to use with a compass.

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cugel. 7 months ago

Obviously you take your phone, with (probably obsolete) maps as backup

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Ms Dodo 7 months ago

Can't you take photos of the maps?? And to leave your phone behind seems very strange, what if you need to make an emergency call??

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Jen 7 months ago

There are plenty of areas where having your phone wont help as there is no cell service, you need a 2 way handheld radio and the channel the parks service uses to make emergency calls.

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Rostit.. . 7 months ago

or dropping the map in the river, or it getting wet, torn, burned. phone is just a non digital version. neither is more reliable.

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ginshun 7 months ago

I have a Garmin Fenix and none of the things that are mentioned in the edit are any issue at all. Topo maps of North America are already loaded. The only place without GPS signal is in a tunnel. Leaving your phone behind has no effect on the maps. So ya, I like paper maps, but they are really pretty useless at this point.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On A notebook and pencil. I find writing down lists, making plans or doing financial analysis on paper so 'clarifying'. The pencil must have an eraser on the end.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Regular, non smart watches.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Cast iron cookware. My $15 pan will outlast any nonstick pan you can buy. I can burn it, scrape it, and rust it out, and still recover it into new condition.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Keys for opening my car door/starting the car.

I'm not down with the whole push-to-start/keyless entry thing.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Manual gearbox. Because it allows me to feel more involved in the driving process.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On I prefer to spend cash. It helps my brain process the spending. I'm still bad with money but I got tired of swiping and praying.

A lot of venues are cashless now - hate it.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Handwritten agendas/planners. Writing s**t out by hand in general.

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123points

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Books vs ebooks.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Manual can openers. I hate the electric ones.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Hand held compass. Never runs out of battery and has saved my bacon many times.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Any non-smart device other than a smartphone. To hell with those devices collecting my data, serving me ads, and being a pain to maintain.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Notepad and txt files!

They have no formatting and work in all situations. Across every device and every piece of software. And by every, I mean that you can easily hit a txt file with a hex editor and fully understand and manipulate it. The file size is small.

Since notepad has no formatting options, you can paste in any modern day c**p and it will strip out the annoying bits. It kills things like hypertext, color, italics bolding, size, and other font changes. It even does a pretty good job of ignoring non human readable characters.

In other words, it works 100% of the time and returns only the content that you actually want with exactly nothing else.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On It is not obsolete really. But my 1999 VW Golf.

I despise new cars and refuse to get one even if I had the money for it.

All these mandatory driving assistance features you cannot permanently turn off like lane keeping assistance combined with the f*****g subscription s**t they are putting out and the fact that you cannot repair your car unless you have the software for it.

I want a car to be able to do 3 things. Have AC, have good sound system, be able to get me from point A to B without breaking down. I neither need nor want all these extra system and they'd be fine if I could disable them and never worry about them again. I cannot so I refuse to get any new car until I can.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Magnifying lenses. Why use a digital camera when you can use a magnifying lens that doubles as a solar death ray?

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91points

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Wired headphones.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Are wallets and billfolds becoming obsolete? I have friends who make fun of me for not just using a phone case that holds everything.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Records. I still love the sound of them better than anything I've heard.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On CDs. I don’t pay for satellite radio so I just play them on repeat in my car.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Wired mice on my PC. No need worrying about a battery dying and it’s not like I need to walk around the room far away from my keyboard carrying my mouse. Alas, they’re becoming less common. 😕

(Wireless headphones are useful though.).

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On My 20 year old TI-83 calculator. So many good features.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Fountain pens. I take a lot of notes because I do a lot of research and writing. I mean hours at a time. Featuring details I have to learn as I go. Fountain pens are the only kind of writing instrument I can use that doesn't tire out my hand. Or my brain. It gets out of my way and stays out of my way.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On I wear a wristwatch. Not only is it not a smartwatch, it's not even quartz! It's mechanical, full of gears and springs and stuff.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Typewriters because they're just so beautiful.

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60points

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Ipod Classic. 160GB with a clicky wheel.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On The Bialetti moka pot. Hard to beat, unless you have coffee shop grade espresso machine.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Wired headset, keyboard, mouse. Not interested in charging or needing to change any batteries.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Oh man I am a total retro grouch. Vinyl records, old steel bicycles, safety razors, film cameras, the whole hipster gamut.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Physical game cartridges.

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On My landline telephone. It always works. No need to worry about a getting a, signal or needing a charge. I even have one corded one so I never need electricity. I did just get upgraded to fiber from copper however, not VOIP though so I'm certainly hoping all the same benefits are there. AT&T is deprecating the copper in the area and said "switch or be cut off." The technician made the switch and ran off before I got to really ask him anything!

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“It Works 100% Of The Time”: 35 “Obsolete” Things These People Haven’t Given Up On Analogue Mixer. I've had an all digital mixer (X-Air XR12) and it stressed me out. I play in a duo and it's much easier for me to just reach to the fader half blind than trying to move a line on a touch screen.

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Papa 7 months ago

I have one that I don't think was mentioned above (at least not specifically). When I go to the grocery store, I still prefer a written grocery list instead of a list on my phone. The written list is always right there. My phone keeps shutting down, so I have to enter my password every time I want to check the list.

12points

censorshipsucks 7 months ago

yes. I tried this and gave up. Also, you're likely to have it snatched in some areas.

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Will Cable 7 months ago

I don't know if what I'm about to say really fit shere but..... my mum doesn't have internet connection, she barely has a phone signal but every medical appointment, referral to some medical service, access to local government etc requires that she needs an internet connection, just phoning someone to make an appointment or speaking to a human is now impossible. How long before they start adding other things you 'need' in order to do anything making accessing service impossible for so many people.

12points

DB 7 months ago

Catalogs. 35 years in auto parts. When the kids can't find it in the computers grandpa and his ancient technology come to the rescue.

4points

James Hagan 7 months ago

I would add a good old fashioned plumb bob and line levels. Builders have used them forever for a reason

2points

Guess Undheit 7 months ago (edited)

T9 phones, aka Featurephones, aka "Dumb" phones are making a comeback. Many young people want phones without social media or constant internet access, they just want to make and take calls. Featurephones make up 20% of the market in India, went up to more than 1% in the US, and rising in other markets. The primary driver of this increase in every market is TEENAGERS, so it's not "old people who can't handle tech".

2points

Guess Undheit 7 months ago (edited)

Bicycles. As proven by the 2017 Mexico City earthquake, the 2011 Sendai quake, after numerous typhoons and hurricanes, AND when oil hit $150 per barrel (in 2011, and soon in 2024-2025), bicycles became invaluable. They're cheaper than cars, more efficient, can go everywhere, and are fast enough. Cars are temporary, bicycles will still be around in a century. The only danger to riding a bike are cars.

2points

Falcon on Dizzy 7 months ago

man I'm 16 and I also prefer older stuff. new stuff is great, but old stuff is so much cooler. being able to listen to metallica and iron maiden on my wireless headphones is great, but it sounds so much better on vinyl! also with the car stuff, I'm also a mechanic, and yeah I hate the computers and stuff too. I'm a mechanic, not an IT specialist!

2points

Corvus 7 months ago

I still keep my 20-year-old laptop with WinXP. Works fine for the most part, though it does show its age.

2points

Scott Wilkins 7 months ago

As modern tech tries to see just how inexpensive you can produce something it doesn't care if it only last an unreasonably short time...thus making it even more expensive and wasteful.

1point

Blyss Blyssylb 7 months ago

Look, I'm the one person who prefers to have both a mobile phone and a landline. Yeah, streaming is ok but nothing beats a VHS/DVD/CD/cassette/vinyl/8 track as THESE items don't Advertise me to Death! They don't need an app nor updates nor WiFi to operate

1point

Floeckchen 7 months ago

Most things on the list aren't obsolete at all

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

well they are if you have a smartphone. But the point of the list is that people still like them.

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XenoMurph 7 months ago

Don't criticise new stuff, just because you prefer old stuff. You prefer the old stuff, fine. You don't have to make up reasons why the new stuff is bad. New stuff is often also fine. You're allowed your preference.

1point

Tracy Wallick 7 months ago

It depends. Planned obsolence is, unfortunately, a thing that exists and it's rampant.

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Barbara Chester-Wills 7 months ago

I give up on Cards been hacked 3 times so am back to Cash & coin.

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Sunny Day 7 months ago

I have an alarm clock-radio. I can set it and it will go off at the same time every morning. I don't have to worry about recharging or forgetting to set it, or that I had it set to "silent" (all excuses I have heard for being late to work).

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Aiden Brough 7 months ago

It's what you prefer I guess? I've never liked vynyl and always prefered modern formats, I prefer physical games and not downloaded ones, and I have a smart watch but torn with my nice non-smart watches... We're all different.

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Pat Curran 7 months ago

Wow, there's a lot of hate for new things flying around in this article! Hate this, can't stand that, despise these things, just because they're new and different from what you may be accustomed to. I understand appreciation for tried-and-true things, and sometimes shiny new things don't work out, but all this unbridled disgust with new things just makes you sound... old.

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Andy Frobig 7 months ago

Does it help if I don't like old things OR new things?

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

yes and no. I think objectively some of these are correct. For example streaming video. Many movies can be hard to find online but not on your DVD collection. Etc.

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Papa 7 months ago

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

yes. I tried this and gave up. Also, you're likely to have it snatched in some areas.

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Will Cable 7 months ago

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DB 7 months ago

Catalogs. 35 years in auto parts. When the kids can't find it in the computers grandpa and his ancient technology come to the rescue.

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James Hagan 7 months ago

I would add a good old fashioned plumb bob and line levels. Builders have used them forever for a reason

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Guess Undheit 7 months ago (edited)

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Guess Undheit 7 months ago (edited)

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Falcon on Dizzy 7 months ago

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Corvus 7 months ago

I still keep my 20-year-old laptop with WinXP. Works fine for the most part, though it does show its age.

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Scott Wilkins 7 months ago

As modern tech tries to see just how inexpensive you can produce something it doesn't care if it only last an unreasonably short time...thus making it even more expensive and wasteful.

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Blyss Blyssylb 7 months ago

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Floeckchen 7 months ago

Most things on the list aren't obsolete at all

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

well they are if you have a smartphone. But the point of the list is that people still like them.

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XenoMurph 7 months ago

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Tracy Wallick 7 months ago

It depends. Planned obsolence is, unfortunately, a thing that exists and it's rampant.

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Barbara Chester-Wills 7 months ago

I give up on Cards been hacked 3 times so am back to Cash & coin.

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Sunny Day 7 months ago

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Aiden Brough 7 months ago

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Pat Curran 7 months ago

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Andy Frobig 7 months ago

Does it help if I don't like old things OR new things?

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

yes and no. I think objectively some of these are correct. For example streaming video. Many movies can be hard to find online but not on your DVD collection. Etc.

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