Nostalgic Tech Explorer Gifts

Bill's brother 'Boob' Gates: 'Bill? Yeah, my VCR is blinking '12' again...'

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

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

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

Snoopy with Laptop

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Old-fashioned computer

Of course we're faster and more powerful now. I just think we commanded more respect when we filled an entire room.

Old Book Smell

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

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

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

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

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

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

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

Millennials in the Year 2050...

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

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

Computer Sale.

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