Alternator Since its invention, the basic principle remained same, we are just finding a fancier ways to rotate it
The six classical machines.
- Screw
- Inclined plane
- … I forget the others
The headphone jack.
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.
I may be wrong on how they “detect” VPN traffic but the lazy way would be to block the common “default” ports used by those services. If they are just blocking this port you could change what port you use. While it does come with its own issues as its a common scanned port changing the port to something like 80 or 443 and “look” like normal internet traffic. Might get around their block.
The ones that maintain a whitelist of connections are the hardest to get through
Meanwhile I just tried to set up a VPN connection for my laptop and can’t get wireguard to work properly
🧷 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.
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)
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.
I read your last sentence as “good girls” didn’t change much :3
RSS Feeds
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.
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. basically build one feed from the various communities you follow.
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 😅
