Old School Tech Fan Gifts

'Hea-hea. . . that's an old AOL disk.'

Antiques.

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

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

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

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

Cord cutter

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

Drive in movies.

Early on-line shopping

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

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

'Early Laptops.'

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

Old and new technologies

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

The Final Chapter.

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

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

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."

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

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

'I call it 'Myspace'''

"Hi..just ringing to see if you got my e-mail?"