
'Want to bet they're more VHS tapes when we've got a Beta System?'
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'Want to bet they're more VHS tapes when we've got a Beta System?'
'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
Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes
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."
'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'
"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"
Library Computer Center: Cybrarian
"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).
'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'
'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'
Technological advances within the office.
Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.
At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.
Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.
"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."
"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"
Forty-five words per minute? Impossible!
'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'
'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'
Old-fashioned computer
He still refuses to upgrade.
"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."
"One day, son, all this will rule your life too."
'I'm worried about that dog's hearing,Doris.'
'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','
"Frank, I need your help. The computers are down, but I was told you know how to multiply two numbers together."
"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."
'Mr. Dobson, you don't have to dictate into the intercom, I'm sitting in the room with you.'
"Oh, come on, you know we should have switched to touch-tone years ago."
Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.
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