Retro Communication Buff Prints

"Operator, I'd like to make a person-to-person call, and I'd like to reverse the roles."

Nope, no answer. We've been playing smoke tag all day.

'Some of these trees have been here for 2000 years... and they still can't talk. Man, we're awesome!'

"Can you tell the oak tree to tell the birch tree to tell the elm tree I said hi?"

'No, I'm the marriage counselor. What you need is the semantics counselor down the hall.'

Letter Collecting Nerd

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

"'Original' to 'Carbon-Paper': Do you copy?"

'Let us pray...'

"Dammit all, haven't they heard of e-mail?"

"Again, you may exercise your right to remain silent, but it's going to work against you since this is a job interview."

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

Before social media there was sticky notes.

'No need to text me the answer to that. I'm right here.'

The Horn of Unanswered Email

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."

"Cancel my landline...are you crazy?"

"That's his answer to everything!"

"I need a more interactive you."

"You can't say that to a customer!"

Your call is important to us...

Post Office: Why Not E-Mail It?

"I was pretty highly respected until email came along."

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

Luddite Zoom.

"We advised viewer discretion and they all decided not to watch."

Whilst browsing in his local flea market, Jimmy has an awkward encounter with an ex.

'You know, she's right. It wouldn't kill you to do a little gathering every now and then.'

'Thanks for buying the ventriloquism instructional tapes. You are now listening to tape number one...'

Beachcomber sees that smartphone displays 'message in a bottle.'

"In closing, let me tell you that never in the universe have I spoken before such an attentive audience."

"The Doctor is just wonderful!! He listens to all my irrelevant, boring stories!"

"I may have waffled, but I never lip-synched."

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

'Text your leader and tell him I'm here.'