Retro Knowledge Seeker Pillows

'You'll find this ideal for brushing the dust off that set of encyclopaedias I sold you last week.'

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

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

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

'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.'

The original paperless office

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

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

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

"Incidentally, my men's group has retrograded into a poker game."

Early on-line shopping

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

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

"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."

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

'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?"

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

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

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

Technological advances within the office.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

Old-fashioned computer

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

'I call it 'Myspace'''

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

Old and new technologies