Computer History Gifts

Early computer hackers.

Exhibition of computer art

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Early Colour TV

Fossil record player.

Fenton G. Gonklemeyer, Computer Scientist - Booted Up 1928 and Crashed 2009.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

"I've had a tip off that someone on the team has been using email."

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'

Caveman to wheel inventor: 'Nice invention - how do you boot it up?'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

The Thinker (Millennials Edition)

Man 'Gogols' the Overcoat.

Computer Address Book.

Signs grampa has run out of 'When I Was Your Age' stories.

Phone Call

'In ancient times they needed these to watch TV!'

'Can I carry your computer disks to school?'

Man at computer sees 'Y2K' comet coming towards him

"Scratch and sniff ... it smells like mimeograph paper."

'Y2K compliance!'