Retro Innovation Enthusiast Pillows

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.."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"Remember that time you tried to kill me?"

"And this is our media room."

"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

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

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

'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.

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

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

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

'It's an antique!'

The fate that awaits us all: creeping Rooneyism

Early on-line shopping

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

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

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

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.'

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

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