[MikeTheGreat]

Your post inspired a random but genuine question:

Does anyone have a good use for obsolete cables?

Like, I've got some serial cables, some co-ax, a bunch of old TV cables, some audio cables.

I tell myself I'm keeping them because if I ever need them I'll never be able to (or want to) buy them again. Moreover it feels like such a waste to throw them away.

Maybe a makerspace could make use of them?

[EasyMark]

I have a box in my garage and if cables start overflowing I go through and toss anything that makes it overflow that seems the least useful or likely to be used. It keeps me from starting a new box. :) . I have another box of old gadgets in static bags but I still have a ton of room left in that :)

[dekhn]

I'm holding on to my coax for a few more years and then getting rid of all of it (electronics recycling, probably). I am so looking forward to never using coax again.

[aareet]

You could make some sort of art - in the climbing community old ropes often become chalk bags or carpets etc.

[abakker]

You've made me imagine a doormat made out of old cat5 and usb cables, and I'm horrified in an amused kind of way.

[jonah]

My local search and rescue team made door mats for their station with old 1/2" ropes. They came out really nicely.

Doing so with serial or coax cables seems like an invitation for bits of the plastic sheath breaking off in a few months and polluting the ground around your door though...