Nostalgic Netizen Gifts

"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... well let's see... Oh, I've got it... My earliest memory was opening an America Online CD, putting it in our old PC, and seeing that symbol." "You do realize that was the 1990s, don't you? You must have already been in your teens." "You are a very sick generation." "I get misty-eyed when I think back to

Witter

"How many times are young going to playback that last episode of 'Friends'?"

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

Snoopy with Laptop

Inside One's Memory Bank

'In my time, we didn't talk to a blackberry. We just ate the damn things!'

In utero...boy, THOSE were the days!

'Lover's lance isn't the same as it used to be!'

'Red rover, red rover, send Billy right over!'

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

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

Og invents the first 'X' box. . . and inadvertently invents the first i pad.

Football Crazy strip six

"I'm sorry, but you didn't recognize me as the Messiah when I had braces and glasses."

'Okay everybody, SMILE!'

"Your mother and I think it's time you got a place of your own. We'd like a little time alone before we die."

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

'So what have you been up to?'

Remember, honey, abracadabra doesn't work anymore. Now it's command, option, shift.

'Early Laptops.'

'Do you know what I miss? - Chalk talks!'

"I think my parents are pretty old. They remember a time before 'clumping' cat litter."

"Grandma's TV is so old it wasn't made in a foreign country."

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

'They're not out of focus. They're just fuzzy memories.'

"It's not that we had more fun before we got married --- it's just that now we're having a different kind of fun."

"and when they woke up, the kids discovered that the house had just one 19", black & white TV that only got... 3 channels."

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

'I told you. . . H not S!'

'Like us, the Hula Hoop will never go out of style.'

It's hammerhead time

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

"What was the point of writing a blog that nobody else could read?"

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