Industrial Nostalgist Gifts

Retirement day

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

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Motivation to work

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

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

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

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Social Media

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

If you give a mouse a french cookie

'I've seen nothing I've liked since Victor Meldrew!'

"Our 'Invest in American' program is saving money by buying orange safety cones from China."

'Once we switch to information processing, just imagine how much data this baby will handle.'

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

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

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

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

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. V. - Theatrical depression.

I remember when the only social networking site you could access at work was the water cooler!

"Ooh look, the high street's evolved to survive!"

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

'Wasn't there three of you guys when we started?'

'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.'

Computer Sale.

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

"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

'Someday, all of this liability exposure will be yours!'