I occasionally harness fire. Does that count?
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I still have a monitor on my main setup that uses DVI because I'm too cheap to upgrade.
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Clothing probaby. Admittedly, it's a bit more advanced than simple animal furs. I also have a knife, but again, probably a touch better than a sharpened piece of flint...
I own a balance scale, I was getting sick of dying batteries in modern ones
I love an automatic mechanical watch. Still use CDs. At work I occasionally need to use 3.5" floppy disks. Still read paper books.
Lenovo Thinkpad X200t by your intended meaning. I don't know if my Meade ETX-60 is older... might be... I haven't checked date codes or anything, but I have several microprocessors and discrete logic chips for breadboarding. Probably, the oldest is a tossup between Z80, 6502, 8088, 6800, 68k, or some CD4000 series logic. Maybe a few of my 74xx chips are older. I have a little bench power supply that was made in the 50's somewhere in my closet. I have a Wander bike my family put in storage that is from the 40's or early 50's.
Newspapers, online news is an echo chamber of personalized content
I listen to radio
I got a rock I use for smashin sometimes.
My clock radio alarm is from the late 80's, I guess. It was my Dad's before and it still works fine.
I still use clippers bought in 2015
I bought a manual scale, because all the electric ones turn off automatically before i get a chance look how much it actually weighs and there is no easy way to subtract the weight of the plate. Also no super specific small batteries bs. Edit: it can do Tara but if it shuts itself off while i was measuring flour, now i have flour on a plate. How do i know how much the flour weighs minus the plate? That's my problem.
I own three gram scales for food prep...
All three have tare and use AAA batteries.
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Do you mean oldest as in invented the longest time ago or oldest as in that specific technological artefact that i use is the oldest one i have?
For the first one i guess cooking?
For the second one its definitely my microwave oven, made in 1991.
Teletext
Various styles of loincloth and several different clubs
Shoes.
Paper datewheel
awk
grep
sed
and lots of other individual programs written long before I was born
The domain name system
The web
email
RSS
wired everything
It would actually be easier to list the things I use that wouldn't be considered old, as those are the exceptions.