Nostalgic Tech Talker Gifts

'Remember when the chat room was just the dinner table?'

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

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

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

"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.

"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.'

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

"Cancel my landline...are you crazy?"

Old-fashioned computer

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

Social Media

"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."

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

"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."

His Master's Data.

'No fax paper? Ok, you'll have to ride for help.'

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

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

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

Millennials in the Year 2050...