What's the oldest thing you still think of as "the new kind" because of how old you were when it came out?
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@ZachWeinersmith The Amiga 1200.
@ZachWeinersmith Cadbury cream eggs
@ZachWeinersmith the phantom menace.
@ZachWeinersmith Fuses. Used to be ceramic single use bastards, not switches.
Pushbutton telephones, probably.
@ZachWeinersmith USB, maybe?
i'd say "touchtone phones", except it feels different for something that's been multiple kinds of supplanted.
@ZachWeinersmith HDMI cables versus the old red-white-yellow cables to plug things into my TV
Touch-tone phones as opposed to rotary dial.
Color television sets. Early 1960s
@ZachWeinersmith Any Metallica album after 1991's Black Album is "New" Metallica.
@ZachWeinersmith I still consider the "tyrosine kinase inhibitor" class of anticancer drugs new, even though Gleevec (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatinib) first came out in 2001. They were definitely a marked improvement from the more toxic classical chemotherapy drugs.
On the lighter side... I consider USB drives, SSD hard disks, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran new, too. :)
@ZachWeinersmith The trick here is *still* thinking of something as new... For me it might be the plastic screw tops on milk cartons and the like - I remember when you just tore open the top and made a raggedy-ass spout.
