Nostalgic Inventor Gifts

"Chips. Disks. Semiconductors. Whatever became of contraptions?"

"Lassie, go get help!" "Oh Timmy you idiot! Not again!"

"In high school, I was quite the star in metal shop."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I'm going to talk about the summer before last, it was much more fun."

"I just love the way you're so endlessly inventive in the bedroom."

"String ... you mean it doesn't have a remote controller to operate it?"

'Dewey! Grandpa's stuck again. Give him a couple of whacks upside the head.'

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

Ten Plagues for Today's Seder

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Before the Internet

'Take my tip,sonny and say it with jelly babies.'

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

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

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

'Bring out yer books!'

Snoopy with Laptop

"Remember back in the day when I was a real heartbreaker?" "Riiight... now the only thing you break is wind."

'I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still (would you believe?)')

"In my life, I've had seven cars, six jobs, five houses, four bypass operations, and three wives!"

"Tell me again, Grandpa, about how you let your freak flag fly."

Toy Shops and Educated Children

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

"More quarters! For God's sake, more quarters!!"

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

Letter Collecting Nerd

"I can remember when having a '212' phone number still meant something in this world."

Fun (circa 1955)

'New Game'

Back in my day, we were drawn with ink on paper, not on some fancy digital pad, but at least we knew we existed.

"I'm thinking of getting the old band back together."

Library door sign says, 'We have encyclopedias ... the original Facebook!'

Three kids in a trench coat, twenty years later.