Internet Historian Gifts

Man passes beggar with '.com' sign.

Moses on the web

Nostalgia website...

'Are you kidding?! You expect me to do my homework with dial up?!'

"Grandma says in her day they had something better than a chat room. It was called a party line."

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!! And on the 4th day of January, 1973, God kicked himself for creating the inventor of the pop-up ad."

I bet you've filled your head with so many tweets and Instagrams that you've crowded out all your actual memories of your own life. Nonsense. I remember way back, all the way to

"I remember a time before the internet... when we had to pay for our disinformation."

'That's some browser history you've got -- Lady Godiva, Lady Godiva, Lady Godiva, Lady Godiva, Lady Godiva...'

Out of E-Business

'Stupid dial-up!'

'I don't have my homework because my dial-up modem couldn't connect with my on-line homework helper.'

"Before you go through the gates of heaven think back to the early days of the internet. Did you ever visit or post anything homophobic, racist or sexist? Tell me now or I will find out."

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

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

Fenton G. Gonklemeyer, Computer Scientist - Booted Up 1928 and Crashed 2009.

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'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.'

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

"David live a rich, full life, despite what his Wikipedia page says."

"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."

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

'for more obit info, go to...'

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

"Remember when, on the Internet, nobody knew who you were?"

'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."

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

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help the Google?"

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

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

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

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