At work, we were cleaning out a closet which has accumulated stuff for at least 15 years. My boss said "Aww, a Cajun[1]!" and it turns out it was the first switch we used back when he started at the company. Later in the day, I had to ask him what he wanted to do with it and it took some definitely effort for him to say "I guess we can just put it in the recycle pile..." as he had good memories of working with it and building stuff on top of it.

Time marches on, and our great efforts are as nothing once they are replaced by the next big thing.

1. https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf