Digital Nostalgic Gifts

A family reunion that warms them to their very core.

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"I'll never forget you."

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

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

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

Social Media

'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.'

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

"Yes, we do fix phones. But, what is that?"

"Cancel my landline...are you crazy?"

Old and new technologies

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

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

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

"Television sets evolved from animals. My randpop remembers when they had rabbit ears!"

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

'No fax paper? Ok, you'll have to ride for help.'

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

'And of course if you'e feeling patriotic today, we have here a new line of PCs produced by the federal government.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

Computer Sale.

"For some reason I can relate to this computer that's been built with old parts."

"I can't use the computer tonight -- Dad has to scroll to his year of birth."

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

'I can't keep up with technology either.'

'Modem Times,'

Encyclopedia

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Does it have colour?'