Nostalgic Gadgeteer Gifts

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

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

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

"Okay lets go. You can message your friends after dinner."

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

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

'A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, a CD player, a laptop computer, a cordless phone and thou.'

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

"Der, dad. . . it's wireless!"

Social Media

Old-fashioned computer

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

'I hope it's fixed soon. I miss the convenience and friendly beep.'

"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."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

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

Time Travelers from the 21st Century.

Computer Sale.

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

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

'Apparently the poor love's walkman is broken.'

Millennials in the Year 2050...

'Yes, I did put a bigger string on it. It's called upgrading.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

"Hi, it's me. My mum's confiscated my mobile." (Kid talks to friend using margarine tub and string).

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

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

'Modem Times,'