Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife's grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some "modern" accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.
I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.
The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter's hands to try making movies with her friends.
I'm sure there's more, but thats off the top of my head.Based on the provided whitepaper, here are the two requested abstracts designed to attract high-value consulting clients.
WEBSITE ABSTRACT (For the download landing page)
The Strategic Guide to Automated Speaker Tracking in Executive Environments
In high-stakes conference settings, the disconnect between audio and visual framing often degrades the professional quality of meetings, leading to disjointed communication and reduced engagement. Relying on manual camera operators is often cost-prohibitive and inefficient, yet poor automation can lead to jarring transitions and "false triggers"
Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf
.
This whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis of speaker tracking systems, detailing how the integration of microphones, cameras, and intelligent software can automatically identify and frame speakers to create a more natural visual experience
Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf
. We examine the strategic trade-offs between different technical approaches—ranging from deterministic mic-level preset recall for fixed environments to adaptive DSP-based gating and sophisticated AI/CV multimodal systems
Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf
. Additionally, we address the critical risk management aspect of these technologies, exploring how organizational security and privacy policies may necessitate the deployment of on-premise AI solutions
Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf
.
Align your AV infrastructure with your operational requirements and security mandates to ensure seamless executive communication.
Download the full report to optimize your conference room experience.
LINKEDIN POST ABSTRACT (To drive traffic to the landing page)
The "silent killer" of high-stakes board meetings? Poor visual framing.
When the camera fails to align with the person speaking, engagement drops and the professional polish of the meeting vanishes. But you shouldn't need a full-time camera operator to fix the problem.
Our latest whitepaper breaks down the mechanics of automated speaker tracking so you can move from fragmented AV to a seamless executive experience.
Here is what you will learn:
Technology Matching: How to choose between deterministic preset recall and adaptive DSP gating based on your room layout and seating configuration.
Operational Efficiency: Methods to automate speaker identification to remove the need for dedicated operators without sacrificing quality.
Risk & Compliance: Why security and privacy policies often make on-premise AI/CV tracking the only viable option for sensitive organizations.
Technical Pitfalls: How to avoid the common "false triggers" that plague basic speaker tracking setups.
Stop settling for disjointed AV that distracts from your core business objectives.
woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004
multiple dressers and bedframes
multiple vintage SciFi hardback books
wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library
homemade quilts
Soccer jersey from 2004
duct tape wallet assembled in 2003
cardboard box for Arby's curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves
...huh. I'm genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren't twenty years old.
Pretty sure it was a wedding present that my parents got a few years before I came along, so it's over 50 years old at this point. It didn't get any use for the first 30 years of its existence, but I've had it for longer than 20, so it counts either way.
If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.
There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.
There's one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don't have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.
Actual answer will be one wooden stool and one round wooden chair made around the 80s. It came from a very old house my sister recently bought that the occupant left untouched since 2008, based on the technology and the calendar. So when my sister wanted to renovate the whole house she asked us to just pick anything that we wanted as everything will be tossed, so i grabbed a wooden chair and stool, give it a little sanding, oil it up with tung oil, and been using it ever since. They also have this grandfather clock that would look great if refurbished, but i don't really have much time to refurb anything else. Wooden furniture is awesome.
Edit: shoutout to my mom's sewing machine + table that she have since she married my dad. You know those with giant crank wheel and you have to rock your feet forth and back to operate the machine? Those. She upgraded the machine to electric in the 90s and still use it today, exact same build.
Thanks to a particular YouTube personality I imported a toaster from the US and converted it to run on 230v. My modifications aside, it's from the late 1950s and still works perfectly.
Kitchen: My stove us 30+ years old. Loads of kitchen gadgets, too. The older knife set my wife uses (she is too afraid to use mine), but mine might touch the 20 years, too.
Living room: The table is 30+, as well as the side table I made.
Basement: The shelves I built 30ish years ago - and they will probably last longest, as they are welded from steel.
I think the PS3 is 20 Years old. If not 20 then it should be there this year. I use it almost daily for gaming. It’s primarily my Minecraft, Uncharted, and LBP Machine though
It's this November. But thats a good path since all my systems before that are older like my original xbox, ps2, ps1, snes, nes, genesis, psp, nintendo ds, game boy advance, intelivision, nintendo 64, gamecube, and Dreamcast. And then any games I have for them all.
A Honda Transalp from 1999. I still ride it to work. Throw in some oil, keep the battery fresh and she’ll never let you down. I’ve had the seat reupholstered and of course the usual wear items replaced (done most of that myself) and it just keeps going. I asked a mechanic to do the valve clearance check at 50.000km and he didn’t need to touch anything.
Fantastic machine, I’m gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
I've an old high end set up from probably the 80s or 90s but haven't gotten it to work with these stupid 3.5 mm jacks yet. I bought an adapter but it doesn't work right because everything is defective now. I'm using a little bluetooth speaker like an asshole while I have a high end stereo system going unused here.
I have a leather belt from the Gap circa 2002 that I've worn most days during that time. It still looks great. I've tried to find a similar one for years, but every belt I've found seems to be made with cheaper materials that aren't going to last
The can opener might be close to 40 years old, still works as expected.
I still use a set square I have had since high school.
Then there's plenty of stuff I use that is much much older but I bought them more recently, like the sewing machine and my typewriters.
A Steinway D grand piano. My dad bought it for my mom before I was born. She still plays it every day, and I used to play it a lot too, before I moved out a month ago.
It’s wild to me that some people have space for a grand piano in their house! I don’t think it would fit in any room we have. Heck, it wouldn’t even fit through the door to get it inside in the first place.
Even without having built my house, I've been a self-sustaining adult for more than 20 years - many of my belongings are at least that old, and/or have been in my possession for that long.
An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers....
If you want to build yourself a nice "vintage" sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn't meant to be repaired.
Clay bowl I made in high school. It's where pocket coins accumulate until I dump them into the machine at the bank that puts them back into my account.
I have a cheese shredder that is from before the 1980s. I'm not sure what its actual age is. It looks and feels like something from the Gold Rush days. It's metal, it's got that old timey metal look to it (not polished), it has a wooden handle, and it basically spins a circular shredder with a hand crank. It's probably from the 1950s. You can't put a lot of cheese in it, but it works well.
Our kitchen table is over 20 years old, but we don't use it as a kitchen table. Mostly it just collects junk. We eat in front of the TV like a lot of modern couples.
I recently found a hat I got 30 years ago and still have. I don't wear hats though, so it's been mostly unused.
The steak knives (our cutlery in general is somewhat new, but the steak knives are ~30 years old)
I'm sure I have misc cables older than 20 years. Network, serial, IEC, etc. And yes, I use serial cables often.
Our kitchen stove is around 20 y.o., but the kitchen is next up on the renovation agenda, so it won't be that much longer
Does my GF count?
I have some really old clothes that I still wear. One example is the Soilwork band short, bought at a concert when they were touring for their newest album "Natural Born Chaos"
A guitar pedal with a 60s style distortion
We live in an old house, so many of the lamps are pretty old too.
My alarm clock. It's probably 30 years old now. It projects the time onto the ceiling, which is amazing when you wake up in the morning and don't know if you over or under slept. I don't use the alarm, but the ceiling clock is invaluable.
All the large kitchen appliances came with this place. I'm sure the oven is over 20 years old and maybe also the dishwasher. When I got here the dishwasher didn't work and it took me ages to determine the main pump had rusted solid. An eBay replacement later and it's been working for 6 years.
My house was built in 1999, my furnace in the attic is original. 27 years old and going strong. True every year I need to blow it to get it up and running, but compared to the alternative I'll take it!
In a similar vein, the gas fireplace is also original and also going strong.
Our couches are somewhere around 6th hand, probably more. The two single seaters are still going strong, but the two seater recently had its back go out. I'm going to try to fix it, but it probably won't last.
My cast iron pan is from the 40's, made in Ontario somewhere... I forget the name of the company rn. [Findlay I thk]
A carving knife and steel that was probably made before the 2000's. Antler handles, no markings. Looks hand made honestly, like someone bought it at a farmers market.
Shout out to my 16-17 y/o ikea kitchen knife. Cost me ~$16. Use it almost everyday. No moving parts, but I mean it just shows people how much I have it together. >..>
Oh, the fucking dank-ass mattress that came with my rental is probably old enough. Might as well be a king size sheet of twenty year old wet plywood with mysterious stains.
*Shout out to my 15 y/o, 1080p pro-scan monitor. Still works like new.
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Ooh I love this. I started with nothing less than 20 years ago so I don't have much that old, but my Playstation 2 still gets used on occasion
I have a living room table that dad made over 40 years ago.
All of my musical instruments and a surprising number of tools. A lot of vinyl records. He'll I have computer thats 25 years old that I still turn on.
Silverware would probably be the oldest, my wife's grandmother bought them in the early 1900s as antiques, and then some "modern" accessories that matched, now antiques themselves. They get used on special occasions mostly.
I have a slow cooker thats ~30yrs old, works great.
The DVD/VHS player with FireWire for minidv is also used while I convert old family videos to digital, and my old dv camcorder is now in my daughter's hands to try making movies with her friends.
I'm sure there's more, but thats off the top of my head.Based on the provided whitepaper, here are the two requested abstracts designed to attract high-value consulting clients.
In high-stakes conference settings, the disconnect between audio and visual framing often degrades the professional quality of meetings, leading to disjointed communication and reduced engagement. Relying on manual camera operators is often cost-prohibitive and inefficient, yet poor automation can lead to jarring transitions and "false triggers" Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf .
This whitepaper provides a comprehensive analysis of speaker tracking systems, detailing how the integration of microphones, cameras, and intelligent software can automatically identify and frame speakers to create a more natural visual experience Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf . We examine the strategic trade-offs between different technical approaches—ranging from deterministic mic-level preset recall for fixed environments to adaptive DSP-based gating and sophisticated AI/CV multimodal systems Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf . Additionally, we address the critical risk management aspect of these technologies, exploring how organizational security and privacy policies may necessitate the deployment of on-premise AI solutions Tad.labs Whitep...acking.pdf .
Align your AV infrastructure with your operational requirements and security mandates to ensure seamless executive communication.
Download the full report to optimize your conference room experience.
When the camera fails to align with the person speaking, engagement drops and the professional polish of the meeting vanishes. But you shouldn't need a full-time camera operator to fix the problem.
Our latest whitepaper breaks down the mechanics of automated speaker tracking so you can move from fragmented AV to a seamless executive experience.
Here is what you will learn:
Technology Matching: How to choose between deterministic preset recall and adaptive DSP gating based on your room layout and seating configuration. Operational Efficiency: Methods to automate speaker identification to remove the need for dedicated operators without sacrificing quality. Risk & Compliance: Why security and privacy policies often make on-premise AI/CV tracking the only viable option for sensitive organizations. Technical Pitfalls: How to avoid the common "false triggers" that plague basic speaker tracking setups. Stop settling for disjointed AV that distracts from your core business objectives.
Download the full guide here: [Link]
Many of my watches.
So many things. The one that gets used the most is a laundry basket which still has the old orange "Spags" price sticker on it. I miss Spags...
Myself
The house itself: 1880
KitchenAid stand mixer
Marble base metal stand lamp
woolen poncho, bought for $20 at a craft fair in 2004
multiple dressers and bedframes
multiple vintage SciFi hardback books
wooden chairs salvaged from the University of Chicago Harper Library
homemade quilts
Soccer jersey from 2004
duct tape wallet assembled in 2003
cardboard box for Arby's curly fries, collected from a dumpster in 2002 to pack favorite Lego builds for storage in the summer before going to college, plus the Legos themselves
...huh. I'm genuinely surprised at how many things in my home aren't twenty years old.
Same here, it would be quicker to say what's newer than that. All the new shit broke so there's not that much left.
Lots of things, but let's say the toaster.
Pretty sure it was a wedding present that my parents got a few years before I came along, so it's over 50 years old at this point. It didn't get any use for the first 30 years of its existence, but I've had it for longer than 20, so it counts either way.
My rice cooker, I'm convinced it will out live me.
If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.
There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.
Cutlery, my mom bought the set before I was born. The heft is perfect, and the mouth feel is top notch.
Several things, my N64, several shirts that I've had since highschool, both cars, and half of my tools.
The table by my bed that i put my laptop on to watch tv in bed.
Lots of stuff; I'm old (enough) and frugal. A lot of my tools might be the oldest, from my faster and grandfather.
Most of it?
Particularly the furniture. New furniture is a waste. Aside from like, mattresses. Zero reason to buy new frames, tables, etc. None.
There's one reason to buy new stuff, that being you don't have that stuff. When I bought my house, I moved in with like two folding chairs and a card table. I eventually bought stuff, and that stuff is all 10-12 years old now. Unfortunately, my kids have murdered my poor Interior Define couch (that I bought before they existed), and so a new couch will come eventually.
I still have the dresser I was using when I was a little kid. I've had it for at least 45 years. It's a little banged up, but good solid wood.
Tap water. It's at least 4 billion years old.
Actual answer will be one wooden stool and one round wooden chair made around the 80s. It came from a very old house my sister recently bought that the occupant left untouched since 2008, based on the technology and the calendar. So when my sister wanted to renovate the whole house she asked us to just pick anything that we wanted as everything will be tossed, so i grabbed a wooden chair and stool, give it a little sanding, oil it up with tung oil, and been using it ever since. They also have this grandfather clock that would look great if refurbished, but i don't really have much time to refurb anything else. Wooden furniture is awesome.
Edit: shoutout to my mom's sewing machine + table that she have since she married my dad. You know those with giant crank wheel and you have to rock your feet forth and back to operate the machine? Those. She upgraded the machine to electric in the 90s and still use it today, exact same build.
X10 to turn off/on a couple lights remotely. It uses radio waves so no bs "smart home" data mining app. This thing
Thanks to a particular YouTube personality I imported a toaster from the US and converted it to run on 230v. My modifications aside, it's from the late 1950s and still works perfectly.
The keyboard I bought for my first PC build. It's the Alchemy Elixir.
Me
Loads of things.
Kitchen: My stove us 30+ years old. Loads of kitchen gadgets, too. The older knife set my wife uses (she is too afraid to use mine), but mine might touch the 20 years, too.
Living room: The table is 30+, as well as the side table I made.
Basement: The shelves I built 30ish years ago - and they will probably last longest, as they are welded from steel.
And thousands of other things.
I think the PS3 is 20 Years old. If not 20 then it should be there this year. I use it almost daily for gaming. It’s primarily my Minecraft, Uncharted, and LBP Machine though
It's this November. But thats a good path since all my systems before that are older like my original xbox, ps2, ps1, snes, nes, genesis, psp, nintendo ds, game boy advance, intelivision, nintendo 64, gamecube, and Dreamcast. And then any games I have for them all.
A Honda Transalp from 1999. I still ride it to work. Throw in some oil, keep the battery fresh and she’ll never let you down. I’ve had the seat reupholstered and of course the usual wear items replaced (done most of that myself) and it just keeps going. I asked a mechanic to do the valve clearance check at 50.000km and he didn’t need to touch anything.
Fantastic machine, I’m gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
The amplifier of my parent's old stereo. Must be from the early 90's. Still going!
I've an old high end set up from probably the 80s or 90s but haven't gotten it to work with these stupid 3.5 mm jacks yet. I bought an adapter but it doesn't work right because everything is defective now. I'm using a little bluetooth speaker like an asshole while I have a high end stereo system going unused here.
May your generational gold always grace your ears with good sounds.
I have a leather belt from the Gap circa 2002 that I've worn most days during that time. It still looks great. I've tried to find a similar one for years, but every belt I've found seems to be made with cheaper materials that aren't going to last
About half of my books.
I've a bunch that are over a hundred years old.
A ton of old game controllers and handheld consoles!
I play a lot of retro games, and use adapters to connect them to my PC for that extra bit of authenticity in emulation
The can opener might be close to 40 years old, still works as expected.
I still use a set square I have had since high school.
Then there's plenty of stuff I use that is much much older but I bought them more recently, like the sewing machine and my typewriters.
The bed that my father has built for my wife and me some 30 years ago. My father sleeps in his grave now. My wife and I still sleep in this bed.
The janky fluorescent anglepoise desk lamp. It's about 30 years old and I've changed the bulb once.
A Steinway D grand piano. My dad bought it for my mom before I was born. She still plays it every day, and I used to play it a lot too, before I moved out a month ago.
It’s wild to me that some people have space for a grand piano in their house! I don’t think it would fit in any room we have. Heck, it wouldn’t even fit through the door to get it inside in the first place.
The legs get dismantled and it's turned sideways to fit in.
Almost everything is more than 20 years old, build my house in 92
From the first EP?
explain EP ?
Extended Play record.
Ty
in between sips of coke he told me...
That he thought we were selling out, laying down, sucking up to the man...
Even without having built my house, I've been a self-sustaining adult for more than 20 years - many of my belongings are at least that old, and/or have been in my possession for that long.
An ice cream scooper from the 1940’s with a mechanical scoop releaser and a bread knife from the 80’s, both random bits that were passed down the family. Nothing special, just very well made tools. Also a Hala desk lamp circa 1950.
My aunt has a 40’s era sunbeam stand mixer that works perfectly… just needs a new electrical chord. Most things are made to be replaced now. Those not so much.
My sister in law got my mil's KitchenAid stand mixer that my wife carved her brother's name into when she was a kid. Works like a champ.
Most of my audio gear. Receivers, turntable, eq, speakers....
If you want to build yourself a nice "vintage" sound system, look for things made before 1980ish. pretty much everything built before that was made to last and can always be repair. After that, they started to deliberately make things that would break within a couple of years so that isn't meant to be repaired.
Clay bowl I made in high school. It's where pocket coins accumulate until I dump them into the machine at the bank that puts them back into my account.
my HP Printer / Scanner from 1998
Almost invaluable rn.
WW2-era P-38 can opener.
I'm mildly irritated that none of the photos on Wikipedia show it folded.
I got a fred but I dont use it much.
Refrigerator is 23
Breadbox, colander, all the silverware, plates cups bowls.
Oh, house.
I have a cheese shredder that is from before the 1980s. I'm not sure what its actual age is. It looks and feels like something from the Gold Rush days. It's metal, it's got that old timey metal look to it (not polished), it has a wooden handle, and it basically spins a circular shredder with a hand crank. It's probably from the 1950s. You can't put a lot of cheese in it, but it works well.
Our kitchen table is over 20 years old, but we don't use it as a kitchen table. Mostly it just collects junk. We eat in front of the TV like a lot of modern couples.
I recently found a hat I got 30 years ago and still have. I don't wear hats though, so it's been mostly unused.
I used to have a 40+ year old cutting board.
I have a Kewl stainless steel hiking bottle.
1 small lamp I bought used at a fleamarket, I had to replace the socket.
Manfrotto tripod.
The house.
1 large Thermos.
1 brace n bit, bought used at a fleamarket.
A book called "The Passive Energy Book" by Edward Mazria 1979
Off the top of my head:
My alarm clock. It's probably 30 years old now. It projects the time onto the ceiling, which is amazing when you wake up in the morning and don't know if you over or under slept. I don't use the alarm, but the ceiling clock is invaluable.
Almost all my furniture, lights and light fittings, a lot of my cooking stuff, my car, a lot of my tools, and even some of my clothes
My audio system. It still sounds better than lots of new equipment in the same price category.
Old Westinghouse vent fans/ heaters in the bathrooms. Things are easily 50 years old.
Coffee brewer. Desk. Have a 100(?) year old wooden couch that the dog likes to sleep on.
Some of my kitchen knives, at least one is 40+ and others 20+, generally a lot of my kitchen utensils are quite old
I got this solid marble 6ft lamp I stole from a landfill. Wrapped that bitch in ivy. Swapped to pink and blue bulbs.
A E S T H E T I C
Also I only drive cars from before the 80's because I don't like fuel injection or computers in cars
A clip-on lamp whose shade I replaced with a tin can.
Guitar
The dryer.
All the large kitchen appliances came with this place. I'm sure the oven is over 20 years old and maybe also the dishwasher. When I got here the dishwasher didn't work and it took me ages to determine the main pump had rusted solid. An eBay replacement later and it's been working for 6 years.
my keyboard/mouse, face towels
My turntable, about 30 years old. Had to replace the needle about 20 years ago, but it still works like a charm.
My house was built in 1999, my furnace in the attic is original. 27 years old and going strong. True every year I need to blow it to get it up and running, but compared to the alternative I'll take it!
In a similar vein, the gas fireplace is also original and also going strong.
Our couches are somewhere around 6th hand, probably more. The two single seaters are still going strong, but the two seater recently had its back go out. I'm going to try to fix it, but it probably won't last.
My cast iron pan is from the 40's, made in Ontario somewhere... I forget the name of the company rn. [Findlay I thk]
A carving knife and steel that was probably made before the 2000's. Antler handles, no markings. Looks hand made honestly, like someone bought it at a farmers market.
Shout out to my 16-17 y/o ikea kitchen knife. Cost me ~$16. Use it almost everyday. No moving parts, but I mean it just shows people how much I have it together. >..>
Oh, the fucking dank-ass mattress that came with my rental is probably old enough. Might as well be a king size sheet of twenty year old wet plywood with mysterious stains.
*Shout out to my 15 y/o, 1080p pro-scan monitor. Still works like new.
The wife