HACKER Q&A
📣 baron816

What’s the oldest piece of technology you still use?


What’s the oldest piece of technology you still use?


  👤 helph67 Accepted Answer ✓

👤 krapp
2001 Ford Escort ZX2. Manual transmission, manual locks, no firmware or spyware, no chance the entertainment system can be hacked to remotely disable the brakes. It has a tape deck FFS.

👤 Finnucane
Fire, a few times a day. It's quite useful.

Or do you mean 'oldest technological artifact' you still use? I have a banjo that was made in 1895. Not techy enough for you? Maybe a c. 1960 waffle iron? An old cast-iron skillet?


👤 AnimalMuppet
Emacs. ftp. bash.

I have a computer game, copyright 1996 (IIRC). I played it last night.

Some of my dinner plates are 30 years old.

I have a pocket knife that was my grandfather's. I don't actually use it, though.


👤 kleer001
Regularly : A blade

Every once in a while: A rock to smash something

Rarely : fire


👤 giardini
Rock, used as hammer, knife sharpener, knife, scraper, particle weapon, etc.

Do I win? Anyone got a tool older than rocks?


👤 gesman
True IBM clicky keyboard. ~1995. Made in USA.

👤 sloaken
hammer, early model was called a rock.

👤 emteycz
Late 1970's radio

👤 yokoprime
Electromagnetism

👤 thedevindevops
Glazed pottery

👤 PestoDiRucola
Electricity

👤 dmos62
Myself

👤 URfejk
Brain.

👤 krasicki
fork

👤 nonsapreiche
the adze

👤 chovy
the wheel.