Nostalgia Nerd Gifts

Monsters Under Bed: Then and Now

'Okay everybody, SMILE!'

"Remember how big and clunky the first ones were?"

'All I did for him, and he just dumped me for new media.'

Postmodernist Pat, "the advent of 'electronic mail' has of course transcended the traditional 'sender-purveyor-receiver' relationship"

Whoa! Willard, you know you can't put metal in a microwave! Why not just heat it the old fashioned way and use your nostrils?

'Stop screaming at Kevin for using your silver quarter collection in the arcade. It's your fault for leaving it where he could find it.'

'Look at him, Tom. He is so obsessed with that silly cell phone that now he wants to be called Blackberry Finn.'

"What is an 'operator' and why are you on my parent's phone?"

'In my opinion, all these labour-saving gadgets make the modern girl lazy!'

'While you were out, we went to multimedia messaging that makes notes like this obsolete.'

The Boar's Head will go straight to eBay.

Football Crazy strip six

"He's our back-up if our computers fail."

'Early Laptops.'

'I work on the latest tablet, but deep down I'm still a ball point pen and yellow legal pad guy.'

'Bless him. Dad loves his old black and white video games.'

'You know, sometimes I find it pretty hard to imagine these will be the ‘good old days.''

Evolution of the Cat

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

'That's a picture of my granddad with shoulder length hair and a beard. That's why mom calls these albums hair looms.'

Litter House on the Prairie

The last of the mullet.

Email

'Boy, they sure don't make teaching software the way they used to!'

Middle-aged dreidels

"I'd like to apply for a hardship license."

"Stop telling me I'm out of touch, you sound like a broken record"

It's hammerhead time

Extreme selfies. . . writing a letter.

'Well, I'll be - Nothing has changed since I was flushed as a kid.'

It's academic

"I dreamt we got a 'sorry you were out' card."

"Oh, that's Harvey Willis. . . he's been here forever."

Does everything have to be vintage with you Hipsters?