Low-tech Nostalgist Gifts

Life before fitness trackers.

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"I'll never forget you."

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

'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."

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

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

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

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

'Artificial intelligence is overrated. We find most people prefer the user-friendly advantage of artificial stupidity.'

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

'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.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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

Computer Sale.

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

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

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

'Modem Times,'

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.