Every “revolutionary” new tool seems to forget why the old ones existed.
We’re drowning in “AI-powered” crap that can’t do what a dumb script did in 2009.
Let’s take a moment for the heroes still holding the line:
- Email – still beats your “asynchronous collaboration hub.”
- Static HTML – loads faster than your React spaghetti.
- RSS – quietly doing its job while social feeds scream into the void.
- Text files – open anywhere, crash nowhere.
- Spreadsheets – still the only “no-code” tool that actually works.
- FTP – yeah, it’s old. Also, it works.
- Keyboard shortcuts – faster than every bloated UI redesign.
- Forums – where real discussions happened before Discord turned everything into chaos.
- Bookmarks – better memory than your AI “assistant.”
- Plain CSS – needs no framework, no build step, no prayers.
- Command line – does in one line what apps need a GUI, login, and subscription for.
- Notepad – zero features, zero bullshit, infinite reliability.
- USB drives – faster than “cloud syncing” when the Wi-Fi dies.
- Markdown – readable, portable, and never once asked you to install a plugin.
- Right-click > View Source – the original dev tool.
- Ctrl + Z – no AI undo feature has ever done it better.
Every shiny new “solution” ends up being an overcomplicated remix of something that already worked.
Old tech isn’t nostalgia. It’s proof that simple beats smart-arse.
