Digital Archivist Gifts

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

National Archives

"Great, but where are all the books?"

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

"Can't believe you've still got an eight-track player in this thing."

"And can one illuminate the manuscript?"

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

"I let go of all my earthly attachments, but there's one I can't seem to shake."

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

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

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

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

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

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

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

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

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

Early Programmers.

Bobbies library of jeans

Catalogue of little books.

"David live a rich, full life, despite what his Wikipedia page says."

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

"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...

Wow, Ernie, another previously undiscovered tomb. And it has some unusual images. Is that a picture of the first sandwich? A thumbs up is next to it. The first "like"! Here's a drawing of a family and a heart has been added. The first emoji! This bird looks exactly like one we saw in the last tomb. The first retweet. Could this be the first social media? Yes! And this is how they scrolled!

'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. . .!"

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.