Fire. No matter the fuel or the method, it still creates heat.
Lots of weight-training equipment. Bars, manuals etc.
Wireguard. I haven’t heard of any huge changes to it over the years. And it somehow just works
My work WiFi blocks WireGuard and OpenVPN connections, which is a huge bummer. I just want to be able to connect to my NAS while I’m at work, but IT doesn’t want to hear that.
At least I can still use IKEv2 with my commercial VPN, so my employer can’t see how much I browse on Lemmy throughout the day.
Meanwhile I just tried to set up a VPN connection for my laptop and can’t get wireguard to work properly
It’s very niche, but the only thing I could come up with is Kvevri, a traditional Georgian winemaking vessel. They’re sold today (and still used for their stated purpose, aging wine), I’ve personally seen kvevris with the exact same shape buried in a wine cellar of 12th century monastery, and at least going by the article they’re like 8000 years old, and haven’t changed much in that time.
My other ideas were:
- Bricks (turns out the earliest sun-dried mudbricks, which are very different from modern ones)
- Concrete (turns out it changed a whole lot since the Romans, modern concrete is much easier to pour, sets faster and is much stronger)
- Nuts & bolts (initially were hand-crafted and non-interchangeable - yuck!)
- Knives (I’ll let knife enthusiasts speak about that one)
🧷 Safety pin. There has been a little change in the safety cap but that’s to save material not functionality or manufacturing.
The entire process is the same:
- Take wire, cut it
- Smash one end flat
- ?? (Bend the wire and fold the smashed end)
- Profit
Lego. Lego from now will still mate with Lego from 40 years ago without a problem. Apart from a growing number of shapes, the basic blocks are still the foundation of everything sold today.
Solid body electric guitars- the first models have been in continuous production and are still available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Telecaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Les_Paul
There were earlier “electric guitars” but I’m thinking all inventions build on previous creations. I don’t think you’ll find many pure answers to OPs question. I think the closest you’ll find is going to be an advancement that produced a single step change in design that flattened the innovation curve forever after. I think the microwave oven was a great example.
Electric fuses also come to mind. Little has changed since 1890.
Velcro? Inspired by nature’s invention
https://www.microphotonics.com/biomimicry-burr-invention-velcro/
Also outdoor grills don’t seem to have changed much other than the material used to keep the fire going.
RSS Feeds
Really? I tried a bunch of time and don’t see the appeal. I haven found any like category filtering so I can’t subscible to like just tech or whatever. I think I’m doing it wrong
The goal is to treat the various sources as potential sources, just like you subscribe to communities here. Instead of subscribing to a tech community, you can subscribe to the various tech news sites that you enjoy.
you are supposed to get the feeds from the sites you visit, and build a single feed from that.
So good, that Google abandoned their reader
That’s a badge of honor, if anything.
Yeah that’s how I meant it. It short circuits their business model.
The bowl.
What’s wrong with drinking out of your hands?!
Found Diogenes’ account!
How materialistic of you, you can just use your hands!
Ceramic might be better than wood
I appreciate the operation you’re running here
The 707.
Dildos
Silicone might be better than wood
I think sewing machines would count? They certainly got a hell lot more “portable”, but the basic design hasn’t changed much since the 1880s. Those things are little mechanical marvels
Well, for “normal” ones they changed a lot about the lower thread. Also there came overlock machines to make life easier for certain stitches.
But nonetheless, they are marvelous machines, I love them so much. It is mechanic porn, and granted, the design of the old ones was perfect. Don’t need all that plastic 😅
nearly
If you think C is perfect then I think your mother dropped you one too many.
“nearly” is, by definition, not.
Maybe not perfect upon conception, but after a couple of decades from common adoption, the bycicle really didn’t change much. Sure, you can use lighter and more advanced materials, you can add an electric motor to it (though I wouldn’t classify it as a bycicle) but you can probably take a 100 years old bike and it would work just as good as a modern one.
Well, my bike looks exactly like that. It’s just carbon all the way down now 😄
At least urban tank drivers can see you before they obliterate you
Who needs gears when you can build the mechanical reduction into the wheel size.
Have you seen belt drive bikes? Not the electric ones. Pretty cool stuff, much lower maintenance. Also internal gear hubs. There’s still innovation happening in bicycles to make them stronger against abuse
I did almost consider an internal gear hub for my bike but they are not common so not sure if parts of maintenance may be difficult to come by. Also not really sure how I could fit one myself. Maybe some day though, I think some can manage quite a few gears.
Fine with a chain though, mine is wax instead of oil lubricated.
It also too about 100 years to reach the modern design of rubber tyres and a drive train, with the rider sitting slightly forward of the rear axle and well behind the front wheel.
