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

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[–] 76 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Rosa Parks lived until 2005

(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    How are pension recipients determined?

    ...Didn't that war end like 160 years ago?

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    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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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    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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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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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    [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    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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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lexus sold cars with cassette players until 2010

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A mainframe computer is probably still processing your paycheck in either your company or the bank.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Continuing off OP's list, the last PS3 game was released in 2020

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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    The last cathode-ray tube televisions were made in 2015.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Polaroids are still going strong.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago*

    Slavery being legal in the US.

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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm a CD collector, they're definitely underrated

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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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    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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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Western Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy (though the majority doesn't realize it yet, and think the Americans only fucked themselves)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Ruby Bridges is alive and well.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Slavery American chattel slavery.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Feudalism as a form of government didn't end in Europe until 2008 when the Island of Sark converted over to representative democracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The ottoman empire

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