Digital Nostalgic Gifts

A family reunion that warms them to their very core.

"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."

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

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

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

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

'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.'

Old and new technologies

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

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

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

'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.'

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

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

Computer Sale.

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

"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,'

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

'Does it have colour?'