Primitive Tech Aficionado Gifts

"He's a real animal when he gets behind a wheel"

The first car accident.

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

'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."

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

"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."

'Hey! -- what have you done with my invention?'

'Another invention? -- You are SUCH a geek!'

"I think we should get a dog."

"Yes, I believe I was one of the first dentists to use computers!"

"So easy a caveman did do it."

"V.C.R's programmed"

"Capture those magic moments forever with Kodak's new Stick of Charcoal."

Man from 'Printing Industry' riding on the speeding computer

'You've got E.I.E.I.O mail'

"Poor guy..he just got a 'Dear John' fax!"

'There is still much we don't know about interplanetary travel.'

Email in a bottle.

"What am I supposed to to do? It's my hunter-gatherer instinct"

'You help me with my homework and I'll help you with the timer on the video recorder!'

BYOD issues were an even bigger problem in the 1950s.

"It's a quaint, one room, no bath, no half-bath, no basement, no windows, hole-in-a-boulder studio."

Early mobile phones

'W-R-O-N-G Voltagggeeee for a vintage machine like myself.'

'It does everything a smart phone does.'

Early 3D home entertainment systems.

Repairing the Sundial's clockwork

"That's a rotary phone, from when people used their forefinger to call instead of their thumb."

"I've always felt that 'caveman' isn't so much a job as it is a lifestyle."

True, it's a fixer-upper.

"If you're going to use a TV as your computer monitor, I suggest investing in a new model."

"Note to Bruce in engineering... forget the wheel, invent the DAMN toilet!"

'I think Miss Jones is winning her fight against computerisation, gentlemen!'

A cave man blowing down a blowpipe.