Industrial Nostalgist Gifts

Retirement day

"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.

Social Media

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

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

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

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

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

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

If you give a mouse a french cookie

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

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

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

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

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

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

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

Computer Sale.

"I can't use the computer tonight -- Dad has to scroll to his year of birth."

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

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

'I can't keep up with technology either.'