Retro Innovation Enthusiast Mugs

Reminiscing with Two Old-Timers

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Diner.

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

The Missing Sock Returns

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"And this is our media room."

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

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

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

Instructions for Bow Tie Wearers

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

Computer Class.

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

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

"If there's any one lesson we've learned from the eighties, it's how to shop!"

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

“I have to warn you - my parents are a bit old-fashioned.”

T-Shirt: 'Been there done that but I'd do it again.'

The fate that awaits us all: creeping Rooneyism

'It's an antique!'

Edison invents the personal stereo

Early on-line shopping

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."