Some of my coworkers were talking about using RSS to read blogs, which made some of the younger folks in our team ask what it is and why we keep using it.

Some still use iPods to avoid subscriptions and streaming services, my favorite was one of our sysadmins who showed me Gopher.

I’m curious about others though, thanks!

  • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    As physical tech:

    • we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.

    As digital tech:

    • Comma Separated Values as a notation predates computers. Then CSV has been used as a computer file format at least since one of the Fortran variants added support in 1972.

    • The implementation has changed as filesystems evolve but the basic directory/file model of data storage and the associated tools ls/dir, cd, rm/del have been around a while. ls has been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back to listfon CTSS in 1961.

    Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.

    • TunaLobster@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      CSV is honestly one of my preferred ways of stacking up data. It’s so easily transferable between languages and systems. It’s always human readable too! There are older tools that I work with that spit out “fixed-width” formats, but then go and fuck it up by not aligning the headers to the columns making parsing is a pain in the ass. CSV would be so much better.