A 5-day, 40 hour work week "standard"
Somebody saying "bless you" to someone else who sneezes
The president
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There's a screenshot on the Wikipedia page.
Civilization started somewhere around 12 thousand years ago
Outside.
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.
A wooden stamp or is stemp something I'm unaware of?
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.
Oxford University started sometime around the year 1100.
Coffee grinder. The pure mechanical one: a wooden box with a stylish crank on top.
I love those! My mom still uses the one that her mother used. It's close to 100 years old now.
I have a more modern one, it's an aluminum cylinder with the crank on top. Still a nice morning ritual, and much easier to hold.
Cobol on old systems that are too ancient to touch but are generally fine as long as you don’t touch them.
The baths on the Titanic still hold water today
Incredible
Religion. And it all needs to go.
Polytheistic religions that don't try to take over the world are nice enough. (I mean, monotheistic religions that don't try to take over the world are also fine, but I personally prefer "our gods are our gods. you have your own gods? cool!" to "there is ONLY our god. Your gods are FALSE.".)
-- Frost
Amen to that.
David Attenborough, and I hope he's around for as long as he wants to be.
It's his hundredth birthday in 2 days!
Fax machines.
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.
Many government departments and private companies consider faxed documents as a duplicated "original", instead of a copy. Because that totally makes sense.
IT MEANS FASCIMILE GOD DAMNIT
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Faxes are common in healthcare facilities and hospitals. I would imagine that they’re safer when it comes to sensitive data.
Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there's still a place for fax, it's essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that's not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody's first choice, but I think it's still valid.
They are analog modems on a telephone line. There is no encryption at all, because they still need to be compatible with fax machines from the 1970s.
There was also an exploit where someone sent a manipulated image via fax, which would exploit an old bug in a jpg library that is used in the software stack, so you can run your own code.
Did you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
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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
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Me
Came here to say this.
Now that's rude :(
Twinings Tea has been in business since 1706.
Zildjian, the cymbal company, was started in 1623.
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.
Film is infinitely upscalable. No video format has ever been able to touch it. You can take films shot 100 years ago and upscale them to 4K/8K/etc. You can't do that with any video format.
Not infinitely. I had a film scanned at 14k and it’s starting to look a bit grainy.
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!
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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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