I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006

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    Slavery being legal in the US.

    Ooops, sorry, I forgot that it’s still perfectly legal in the US.

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    Slavery. People always talk about slavery like it’s something that only existed in 19th century America as if it wasn’t happening right now everywhere.

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    Up until 1997 rape within a marriage wasn’t defined as a crime in Germany. Because it was specifically defined as an act outside of marriage. Our (probably) next chancellor Friedrich Merz voted against the bill that finally made it a crime!

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    the last indiginous rehabilitation learning center in canada didnt close until 1997

    i forgot the official name for it

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    Juno is still around and still offers dialup internet plans. Earthlink was still offering dialup until last year.

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    Audio CDs are still around. While they’re surely not the medium people listen music from, they will most likely be on the merch table at the next concert you go to.

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      Do people really think audio CDs aren’t around anymore? I bought several audio CDs in the last few years, I prefer to have local copies of music I like rather than depending on a streaming service.

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        One of the only things I’ve encountered in life that provides greater joy than sex is the feeling of finding an awesome super underground CD in a $1 garbage bin at the local record shop.

        Favorite findings:

        Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, Sad Tropics
        Sunswimmer, New Madrid
        New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson

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      The fact that high end music streaming platforms are only just now starting to offer super high bitrate lossless “CD Quality” audio as an option, gives you an indication of how good CDs actually are as a physical medium.

      A cheap old CD player connected via SPDIF to a modern mid-range DAC with decent speakers will give you better quality audio than the latest Sonos system streaming from Spotify.

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      My sister actually saw her in elementary school! Even in her old age she was trying to educate us, and teach us better.

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        As brutal as that verb is, it’s an understatement as to what he went through.

        Going out on a limb guessing kids aren’t learning this anymore.

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          I agree, I’m in the military so I end up working with a lot of 18-19 year olds. One day a few years back, a bunch of us were sitting around the table talking, and I don’t remember what the conversation was about but this kid lookes at the black guy and says “that’s how you get lynched”

          There was a collective gasp and we then had to explain to him what that meant. He just though it was something offensive to say to someone.

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    The iPod was discontinued in 2022. I’m guessing there’s already a lot of kids who have no idea where the term “podcast” comes from.

    The Famicom Disk System, which uses a kind of floppy disk for the Japanese market NES, had kiosks where you could copy games onto disks. The last of those kiosks were removed in 2003 It overlapped the Game Cube.

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      I’m old enough to remember when iPods first came out but somehow I didn’t realise podcast came from the word iPod. TIL!

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        Apple didn’t invent the concept of podcasts, but they sure popularized them. They used to be called syndicated audio, and were pretty niche. Then Apple added it as a feature of iTunes. The idea was that because your iPod didn’t have any wifi or data connection, you couldn’t listen to new content while out and about. So you would plug your iPod into your computer with iTunes to sync down all the latest content before you leave for the day. Then they needed feeds of new content to provide to the users, so lots of new episodicals were started, and Apple grouped them under the umbrella of “podcasts”.

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      Is the iTouch still around? I remember my beige got one and it was essentially an iPhone without sim card.

      Adult content could still be accessed, so Apple were to bring out the iTouch kids.

      Never happened. :/

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        Apple never made a product called iTouch. You’re thinking of a product called “iPod Touch”. It was the touchscreen version of the iPod (without the iconic clickwheel). The first one was essentially a slimmer iPhone 3G without a cellular modem.

        I worked in an electronics repair store just after they came out. We replaced hundreds of broken screens on them. The sheer number of people who called them “iTouch” was surprising, considering Apple never called it that.

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      How are pension recipients determined?

      …Didn’t that war end like 160 years ago?

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        US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.

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          Stuff like this is also why a lot of companies have also moved away from pensions, one it’s expensive, two mismanagement, but it turns out that offering to pay someone for free until the end of their life doesn’t make shareholders happy, so fuck the employees right?

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    Nixie tubes - those vacuum tubes that display a single digit or character on glowing wires - were commonplace in the 1950s and 60s but were superseded by LEDs. They’re still made in the Czech Republic, bought mostly by hobbyists to build retro gadgets. I have a few myself that I haven’t gotten around to using.