Retro Education Researcher Gifts

"Was geography any easier when you were my age, Grandpa? Back when the world was flat?"

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."

'How kids really saw Mr Robinson in computer classes.'

1998: A Look Back

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

Idiot's Guide to Programming a VCR.

Abacus manufacturer waits for virus to destroy computers.

"Dad hasn't been the same since he went back to school."

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

"I'm impressed! Junior actually asked to use our old-fashioned dictionary!"

Man rummaging through a TV set throwing out bits of paper

"Speaking only for myself, the unexamined life was a total gas!"

Reminiscing with Two Old-Timers

STRIP Hambone: Abacus computer

"I loved the good old days, …. 'better dead than red'."

'You want me to be more like I was when we were first married? OK, I'll put away the remote and change it manually.'

A very long fax

"Leon rents out his time machine to people who have to go back and 'un-day' stuff that's now considered offensive."

Old man with archaic ear horn says: 'This was state of the art when I joined the waiting list ...'

"Laugh if you will, but my kind once ruled the earth."

'Ms. Worden, please go to the library stacks and bring me a few education journals from the 70s. It seems everything old is new again.'

"It's like the ancient internet, printed out."

'You don't say! I'm a recording, too!'

"Now turn your head and cough."

"Secure in their ignorance, medieval peasants were impervious to education, fearful of progress and lived on potatoes and cabbage. Thankfully, it's very different today. Now they've got burgers and fries."

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