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Technology Junkyard: Waste Not Want Not - Am I Officially Old?

I was trying to charge up my old iPod touch the other day after a news story came up on my LG Velvet mobile phone Google news feed regarding the obsolete iTunes store and how it will be gone soon. So, obviously, I had to check to see if my vintage tech was still working, powering up my iMac G5 PPC and checking to see if that still had iTunes. Happily, it still is up and running and even has all my music, radio stations, and even that funky screensaver with the psychedelic bouncy ball. The speakers were great on the relic of a computer but they may need a dusting or they are old, sounding a little scratchy on the left speaker. Running Tenfourfox as a browser and Open Office, I used this aged technology for simple paperwork, listening to my huge CD collection or radio. I noticed the browser is out of date and cannot be updated, while the Open Office software is probably obsolete too.  I have quite a large vinyl collection and a few years ago I purchased a cheap Victrola record player...