Things that have withstood the test of time
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The wheel has made a lot of things possible.0
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Errrr...what sort? And define "classical"? Is there a cut off date? As for music fads, plenty of those dating back centuries.ballysmate said:Classical music.
Music fads come and go with each generation but classical stays popular.
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Does that not bring us back to the knives KG mentioned above?Pross said:Sliced bread, not sure what the best thing was before it came along.
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Amazon.com“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Which came first, bread or knives?veronese68 said:
Does that not bring us back to the knives KG mentioned above?Pross said:Sliced bread, not sure what the best thing was before it came along.
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There are apparently considered to be 4 periods of classical music dating from 1650, which seems pretty longlasting to me.secretsam said:
Errrr...what sort? And define "classical"? Is there a cut off date? As for music fads, plenty of those dating back centuries.ballysmate said:Classical music.
Music fads come and go with each generation but classical stays popular.
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wasn't he in the Die Hard documentaries?briantrumpet said:Who knows the name Malcolm McClean? No??
Well, he invented the shipping container, pretty much single-handedly. That's certainly withstood the test of time.
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5026.html.The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
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Eh, me? 🤣🤣🤣The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
The Tamiya paint pen I just used. Bought it when I was 15, for a BMW motorbike model I was building.
Still works! I now use it to label plugs, etc (I just turned 52...!)
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I have a DJ that, tbf, I don't wear very often - but it is still in good condition and looks way better than most newish ones. I bought it from a vintage shop in the 80s, and it dates back to the 40s. Funny to think that more time has elapsed since I bought it than from its origin to that date.0
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Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
No. You’re getting him mixed up with the bloke who invented toothpaste.MattFalle said:
wasn't he in the Die Hard documentaries?briantrumpet said:Who knows the name Malcolm McClean? No??
Well, he invented the shipping container, pretty much single-handedly. That's certainly withstood the test of time.
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Just cos it randomly came on the radio, but from a genre that offers very little in the way of memorable music (not least because of the mind altering chemicals consumed with it), this is just an almighty <90s> choooooone </90s>ballysmate said:Classical music.
Music fads come and go with each generation but classical stays popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZhC8DUD_o&ab_channel=DanceNation We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years0 -
I see pedantry is alive and well too. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the yearsThe above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
pblakeney said:
I see pedantry is alive and well too. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years
The word 'pedantry' has been around for over 400 years.1 -
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Most of the stuff in my house would be appropriate for this thread apart from the kitchen appliances and digital cameras. I rarely buy anything new and never replace things unless they break. Here is my 1913 Gibson A4 mandolin and an item that was ancient when the mandolin was new. Both get regular use in the way the makers intended (at least if Gibson intended their mandolins to be played badly....). The only thing in the shot that isn't really old is the only thing that was pretending to be old when it was new - the little drawer unit. The other stuff was bang up to date when it came out.
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Err and the M in ROM stands for?Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Is that a hand crank bellows?rolf_f said:Most of the stuff in my house would be appropriate for this thread apart from the kitchen appliances and digital cameras. I rarely buy anything new and never replace things unless they break. Here is my 1913 Gibson A4 mandolin and an item that was ancient when the mandolin was new. Both get regular use in the way the makers intended (at least if Gibson intended their mandolins to be played badly....). The only thing in the shot that isn't really old is the only thing that was pretending to be old when it was new - the little drawer unit. The other stuff was bang up to date when it came out.
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Read Only Memory or even Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory is not where one’s pictures are stored on a Hard Drive, these are used for other purposespangolin said:
Err and the M in ROM stands for?Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years
I'm sorry you see it as 'pedantry' but the terminology used was just plain wrong. You wouldn't say "I called into Tesco's today and filled my sump up with petrol" would you?pblakeney said:
I see pedantry is alive and well too. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years
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Mine is my 1957 Selmar M6 Alto Sax. Knives are generically old, but not the one in your hand, bread after knives, discovered/ invented Ancient Egyptbriantrumpet said:rjsterry said:My set of J B Addis & Sons carving chisels. Old when my grandfather picked them up as an apprentice joiner in Chatham Dockyard.
It raises an interesting question as to what's the oldest thing that one regularly uses, in either domestic or work setting. I suspect mine would be the trumpet at the top of the thread.1 -
FTFYddraver said:from a genre that offers very little in the way of memorable music (not least because of the mind altering chemicals needed to make it sound good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZhC8DUD_o&ab_channel=DanceNation0 -
Congratulations, you have passed my S2 unit on computer architectureCharlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years0 -
You knew what I meant though, didn't you?Charlie_Croker said:
Read Only Memory or even Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory is not where one’s pictures are stored on a Hard Drive, these are used for other purposespangolin said:
Err and the M in ROM stands for?Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years
I'm sorry you see it as 'pedantry' but the terminology used was just plain wrong. You wouldn't say "I called into Tesco's today and filled my sump up with petrol" would you?pblakeney said:
I see pedantry is alive and well too. 😉Charlie_Croker said:
That would be 'storage' (on a Hard Drive) not memory. Memory (Random Access Memory) is volatile and is wiped when the power is removed.pblakeney said:Digital memory.
I remember having to delete photos as my HD was getting full. Now restored.
The way storage works and what it's made of has changed somewhat over the years Well I hope not!
All that matters. See the smiley? Means I'm joking/not fussed.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Is anyone else still using a Garmin Edge 800? I'd definitely throw mine into the ring. When I try and think what other tech devices I'd have been using around that time, most of them have been comprehensively outstripped yet my little edge 800 carries on just working even though it's been dropped in streams, crashed into rocks on the MTB, ridden through years of winters etc.
Garmin made a gem with that one...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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I'm still using an Edge 200 which I bought in 2012ddraver said:Is anyone else still using a Garmin Edge 800? I'd definitely throw mine into the ring. When I try and think what other tech devices I'd have been using around that time, most of them have been comprehensively outstripped yet my little edge 800 carries on just working even though it's been dropped in streams, crashed into rocks on the MTB, ridden through years of winters etc.
Garmin made a gem with that one...1
