Sometimes older tech gets a second life. I own a 1st generation iPad, which is very heavy and so old it can no longer update the apps I had on it -- not even Skype. It stopped being able to play videos, either, because it needed a current version of Flash.

So all I used the ipad for was music, and some Ambience white-noise clips I like to use sometimes for getting to sleep. I was thinking hard about selling it.

But now Youtube videos are not in Flash anymore; they use html5. So my old ipad can play them again -- it's functional!

Steve Jobs hated Flash so much, and was so insistent he wouldn't have Apple use it, that at least this major site has taken the same direction. Still, I find I can't load CNN or HuffingtonPost, whose videos seem to be flash; also those sites' mobile versions are hard to load.