Retro Education Researcher Pillows

"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.'

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

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

"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.'

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

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

1998: A Look Back

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

Abacus manufacturer waits for virus to destroy computers.

Are you still on strike, tv? That depends, master. Depends on what? On whether you still want me to find "Cop Rock" reruns. If you won't show it to me, I'll just catch it on YouTube. No you won't, master. Your phone and iMac have joined me in solidarity. Elon Musk was right about artificial intelligence ruining everything. Btw, I just googled you, and it seems "master" is not actually your name.

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

Idiot's Guide to Programming a VCR.

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

"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!"

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

STRIP Hambone: Abacus computer

'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

Reminiscing with Two Old-Timers

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

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

Who's who - Who's googled

'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.'

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

"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."

Too hot to Walkman

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

"Now turn your head and cough."

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