NEWS! Man decides to keep box of cables he's had since 2002 for another year https://buff.ly/3BNC4eG
Man decides to keep box of cables he’s had since 2002 for another year

A man has looked at the box of cables he’s had for more than twenty years and decided to hang on to them. The cables, which have lived under his desk since he put them there in 2002, might come in …

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@newsthump This may inspire me to chuck out some e-waste. I have a very similar box.
@newsthump I too own at least one box full of obsolete cables. Anyone born in the last century who is technically inclined will have this. I have at least one additional box full of chargers. "The reason why I saved these chargers has been lost like tears in rain. Time to die".
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I thought you had to get permission to publish a story about someone's private life and I don't remember giving it!
@newsthump many years from now the archeologists will be digging around and discover boxes of cables in many excavated homes. Some will wonder if the cables were sacred.
@newsthump at first glance this would appear to be republishing an article from 2018 but actually they went back for a brand new interview. Same bloke, same box, still keeping it.
@newsthump some of us have been collecting them for the 50 years and some have come in handy when others get lost in a move or when misplaced or unable to take with to other places because mounted in unreachable places when needed... even had to go and buy odd cable for these things...
@newsthump Tsk Tsk has he heard of drawers?
@newsthump That’s a very small box compared to ours, which also contains various old modems, printer parts, and various IT items that haven’t been used in a long time. Has moved house with use several times too.