Nostalgic Tech Lover Prints

'I like the touch screen, but I miss playing with the mouse.'

"Phones used to be easier to hear on."

Ancient Artifacts

TV Repair 101.

'I like getting my news online, but I miss annoying people with excessive, newspaper rustling noises.'

'I though I'd developed tinnitus, then I remembered we still have a landline.'

'Serious problem, team. What the hell is an iPod?'

'Stupid exercise video got jammed in my machine.'

'Hello Cynthia, it's me...I thought I'd phone for a natter, Gerald's fallen asleep in front of the TV...trying to program the video.'

"Mom? Why is the television so fat?..."

'In 10 seconds this message will self destruct.'

The victims of technological advances...

A snake charmer charms listing paper

'The key to inner peace? A land line.'

"Tell me again what it was like in the olden days, Gramps."

"What's a phone book?"

"No, it's not a sinkhole. My old computer tower was so big and heavy, I dropped it."

Go to meeting, Zoom, remote learning, embeddable video, skypting. . . and you still haven't mastered your VCR.

"Smartphone? What's that?"

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

'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!'

The original paperless office

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

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

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

'Oh, relax - you're doing great for your age...but I am a little concerned about out computer's old operating system.'

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian