Old Gadgets Gifts

"The computer's messed up? How time flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

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

"Thanks—I got it off Amazon."

Frankenstein's Monster's PC.

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

'I've found a spade I like Julia...'

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

Old Phones Lasagne

"Cap'n FancyPants got himself an i-Patch."

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

The Uses of a Stethoscope

Geeks and their dogs.

Old and new technologies

Old-fashioned computer

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

"However good father's 'beaver-o-matic' was..."

What's that? A car phone. All I need now is a car.

Millennials in the Year 2050...

"Business is as usual. Marginal."

An elderly woman with a heart-shaped ear trumpet

'After you're done crank starting your computer, maybe we can talk about investing in better technology.'

'This is the only secure line in the building.'

"Now it's high definition!"

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

'You can't tell a book by its cover, or a reading tablet by its high contrast, no-glare touch screen.'

'I'm not saying he's too old, but he has a five-inch floppy disk drive.'

"This is so cool! I'm flying this thing completely on my Palm pilot!"

"OMIGOD! I'm becoming my predecessor!"

'Things really change fast now. There's an original i-pad.'

'... So I'm standing near this old guy and he's using an old, giant cell phone-- I mean this thing is ridiculous! Hahahaha!'