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

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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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      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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      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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    Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

    Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

    People seem to think they lived mostly or entirely in the 1800’s. The fact that Rick Wakeman of the rock bands Yes and The Strawbs had once pushed Dalí offstage in 1970 is such a weird overlap of eras.

    France used the guillotine for the last time in 1977.

    There is still one Blockbuster store open, located in Bend, Oregon.

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      holy crap you made me look that up and woa. official form of execution till they stopped capital punishment so they never officially used anything else.

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      Granted Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, where you could see the transition into cubism, was from 1907. He continued to create famous abstract works well into the 50s. Dali’s famous The Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks) is from 1931.

      It’s wild that people think of the abstract movement pre-1900s to me! Pre-1900 was the Impressionists, and with Art Nouveau coming in at the turn of the century.

      The 1930’s was really primed for the abstract modern painters.

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      Salvador Dali was almost the emperor in Jodorowsky’s Dune.

      I say almost as if there was only one thing holding them back from making it…

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    It can be argued that the Roman empire didn’t truly end until WWI in 1918, 106 years ago.

    The fall of the Byzantine Empire (aka the Eastern Roman Empire) resulted in a number of subdivided but diplomatically aligned states. By the end of the 19th century a number of European powers were still vying for some claim to the lineage of the Roman Empire (and the Emperor title). But as consequence of the war, the German/Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires we’re all dismantled (and France was out or the running because of the revolution) so every entity with a claim was dead or out of power for the first time since the 11th century.

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      I’m not a historian but can there still be an empire if there’s no emperor or empress? The Eastern Roman empire is a misnomer for the Byzantine Empire, which started when the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed in the 400s by some Germanic warlord whose name I forget. How is that not the end of the Roman Empire? Seems like deciding to call Ukraine Western Russia.

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        The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman empire - we really on refer to them differently for temporal convenience. The west were the Latin speakers and the east were the Greek speakers (as least for the first half-millennium). And many people still called themselves Emperor of Rome, in a continuous succession, after the fall of the west. For quite a while one of the Pope’s titles was (legitimately) Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

        By the 20th century it was down to 3 rightful heirs, all trying to make Europe recognize them as THE Emperor. But in the mean time their empires still recognized them as such.

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          Which claimants are you thinking of? I know the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire both claimed to be continuations of the Roman Empire. I don’t think Italy ever claimed to be the new Rome, somewhat ironically, and I think Germany and France had stopped claiming to be Rome as well.

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            The House of Hohenzollern in Germany. The Habsburgs formally gave up their claim in order to create the Austro-Hungarian alliance/Empire, but they had asserted it less than a generation prior and also claimed their Empire status on that back of it. And in the Ottoman Empire the lineage of Mehmed, including Mehmed V during WWI, claimed to be the continuation of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire.

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        At the point the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed they were using a system with two emperors due to the massive amount of territory being impractical for one man to govern, senate or no. Only one of the imperial titles imploded, with the other going along just fine for centuries before that part of the empire also started to collapse.

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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.

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    The human race went extinct about 17 years ago. We’re all secretly something else, but we don’t tell you about it until you’re 45.

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    Leaded fuel. Avgas is 100-octane leaded gasoline that is still being used by most small aircraft piston engines. Lead-free alternatives exist, but production and supply infrastructure is nonexistent.

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      That isn’t as crazy as it may seem. My main audio source well after graduation which was 2005, was a portable cd player that could play cd’s burned with compressed mp3 libraries and connected to the car’s stereo system via aux to cassette adapter.

      Idk about the portable cd player with mp3 library being common but most blunt cruises in those days were done in vehicles using portable cd player with cassette adapter. I know this is super anecdotal and specifically about the car owner class that isn’t buying new Lexus’ but I still wanted to point out the cassette deck saw extended use long after people stopped listening to actual cassettes.

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        My 2006 RX factory radio unit had cassette and cd decks. Sometime around 2012, I remember feeling like I had unlocked a secret backdoor because an audiobook that I wanted from the library had a crazy long waitlist for the cd edition. I hadnt used cassettes in decades, but somehow I had the idea to check to see if they offered that audiobook on cassette. They did! And it was available to check out immediately!

        I replaced the radio in that car shortly after that because I needed a bluetooth connection and handsfree capability.

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          Omg fuckin yes. It was so awesome. It was during a brief period when mp3 hit the stage but before ipod was God, there were mp3 players that would just pop up like a memory stick in windows and you could limewire whatever you wanted for music onto the players.

          IDK if the software was Sony but the player was and you could put your whole limewire library in a small single CD per page zip up binder things. The mp3 saved on the cd was nothing special. The special was no audio players could play mp3 files at that time. Exceptions being: gaming consoles, pc’s and maybe your surround sound if it was new. Cars were still nobs and buttons.

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      …and doing at least part of it in COBOL. Random fact: there are about 10,000 mainframe computers still in use around the world.

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    Some women in Swiss were only allowed to vote in 1984.

    Cleopatra is closer to us than she was from the great pyramid construction.

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      It helps to remember that Cleopatra was both from a completely different incarnation of Egypt and that she was the last independent pharaoh before Egypt became a Roman province.

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    Jim Crow.

    The south still has similar voting restrictions, it’s just the supreme court stopped caring and said ‘sure, whatevs’.

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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.