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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 09:30:53 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   What year do you consider vintage?

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     AboutHammer (abouthammer@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 11:00:52 JST AboutHammer

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     @georgetakei I base it on who was living at the time. If an item was in fashion or used by my grandparents, that is vintage.

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     Sterling Ericsson (sterlingericsson@mstdn.science)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 06:51:36 JST Sterling Ericsson

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     @georgetakei If it's more than 15 years old, then you're edging into an entirely new generation of people reaching adulthood since that time point.

     So I'd consider anything older than that vintage.

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     • Sterling Ericsson

     @sterlingericsson Welp!

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     George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 06:52:37 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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     @Ash_Crow Fair!

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     Ash_Crow (ash_crow@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 06:52:38 JST Ash_Crow

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     @georgetakei depends on what we are talking about. For a vintage car, I'd say older than a century, give or take.

     For a vintage video game, maybe a quarter or a fifth of that?

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 06:52:47 JST George Dinwiddie

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     @georgetakei
     last Thursday. 🙃

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     • George Dinwiddie

     @gdinwiddie Ha!

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     Steve (steve98052@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 06:59:58 JST Steve

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     @georgetakei
     It all depends on the product category.
     - The 1977 computer in my cellar is vintage, possibly antique.
     - Recorded music media older than the year CDs first topped LPs in sales are vintage, even if they're early CDs.
     - Recorded movies older than the first Bluray are vintage.
     - Books from before the time when paperbacks started being routinely printed on acid-free paper are vintage, as are books adapted to screen at least twice.
     - Vehicles from before fuel injection displaced carburetors are vintage.
     - Furniture is vintage if it's handmade from solid wood, even if new. Particle board furniture is never vintage; it skips directly from new to junk. Veneer over real wood if it is sturdy enough that it has lasted a couple of generations.
     - Appliances are vintage if they were built to be repairable.