Old School Tech Fan Prints

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.."

'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!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

Drive in movies.

Early on-line shopping

"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.'

"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.'

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

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

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

The Final Chapter.

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

Old and new technologies

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

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

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

'I call it 'Myspace'''

'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.'

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

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

"It's another e-mail from your folks. You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you'd just tell them about the Web."

He still refuses to upgrade.