Gadget Nostalgist Gifts

"I never thought I'd miss ringtones!"

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

'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.'

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

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

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

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

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

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

The Uses of a Stethoscope

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

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

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

'...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."

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

Electronic Abacus

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

"However good father's 'beaver-o-matic' was..."

Time Travelers from the 21st Century.

'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."