Gadget Nostalgist Mugs

"I never thought I'd miss ringtones!"

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

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

'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?'

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

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

Of course we're faster and more powerful now. I just think we commanded more respect when we filled an entire room.

"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?"

The Uses of a Stethoscope

Old Book Smell

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

Social Media

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

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

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

Electronic Abacus

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

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

'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.'

Time Travelers from the 21st Century.

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