Hindsight Historian Mugs

'Welcome to Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, the investment hindsight show.'

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

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

'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.'

'O mighty gods! - May you grant us food, clothing, and shelter, and the wisdom to know the difference.'

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

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

"He reports to Grand Central Palace tomorrow."

Infographics: the early years.

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

Cavemen Exhibit

"1971... 2015..."

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

"Oog creates fire and all you can come up with is that silly round thing!"

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

"What's the first thing you remember?" "Why do you ask?" "Because it'll help the cosmologists." "Come again?" "Cosmologists have discovered a lot about the universe. In 1990, they discovered cosmic microwaves are 'black body radiation.'" "What that means is, they discovered the microwave radiation that fills the universe conforms exactly to a pattern known as a 'black body spectrum' that was predicted by models of the Big Bang." "English!!!" "They proved the Big Bang happened." "But one of the b

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

"Frankly, I don't like the way things are going."

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'

Caveman to wheel inventor: 'Nice invention - how do you boot it up?'

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

Nostalgia: 'In one era..out the other'

"I'm just posting something to my wall."

"That man's a legend in this office. He has 100% accuracy in predicting the past."

Computer Address Book.

"This thing isn't working."

'It's taken me time to adjust to the different management style here.'

The Thinker (Millennials Edition)

'And remind your father to take out the chicken from the freezer and don't forget to do your homework.'