I bought an eeepc netbook in 2008. It was my main computer until 2012, spent several years sitting on a shelf, and now is my daughter's. It's still doing fine, as are the two other eeepcs people in my family bought around the same time.

It's not useful for very much, since it's way underpowered for most things you might want to do today, but it still works for typing and basic networking.