Cell Phone Archivist Gifts

"Seriously! My mother says she remembers when all you could do with a cell phone was make calls."

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

Catalogue of little books.

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

Attic of hopes and dreams...

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

'Lost Diary'

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

Dive in Archive.

"I'm still looking, sir?"

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

"I'm collecting everyday objects for a time capsule."

"My phone won't fold but the manufacturer did."

"Grandpa can't hear you. Turn on your caps lock."

Library. Frank, I need to locate some biographies. Do you know where these are? This King Tut book is stored in a box down in the basement. The Napoleon biography is with the short stories. And the Henry Ford book is in the autobiography section. Unfortunately, this Amelia Earhart profile is missing. It mysteriously disappeared years ago. And what about the Albert Einstein bio? It's right up there, on the top shelf. The book about Einstein and his theories is way over your head, Ernie!

National Archives

"Grandma, somebody wants to talk to you, but I can't get your phone off this cord."

'In today's electronics world, printed books have become historical and museum pieces.'

"Hey! This was rubber stamped!"

"Now to file 50 million completed Census forms"