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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The new kind of telephone with buttons instead of a dial.
@ZachWeinersmith various albums from the noughties, and a supermarket that opened in 2009 (I worked in the one it replaced, so I always specify that I worked in the 'old' one but not the 'new' one).
@ZachWeinersmith I was going to say smartphones but people are making good points about touchtone, so thinking a bit harder: 3-and-a-quarter inch floppy disks.
@ZachWeinersmith flat televisions, probably
@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.
