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1998: A Look Back

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

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

'Oh, I don't have an appointment to see the doctor. I'm doing a report on magazine trends in the 1970's.'

"So then, after I'd invented my time machine, I thought: why not go back and visit the good old days?"

'What's with the overnight bag, Orville?'

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

You had me at vintage.

'My daughter says I'm hopelessly outdated...'

Tourist

'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?"

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

"Boy, these are really overdue!"

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

"...I have the oddest 'earliest memory' and I wanted to share it. It's just as wekkm I guess. Knowing some man secretly attended my first birthday party has caused me to question my parentage all these years....Especially since Mother Park made me promise not to tell Father that the potted plant was acually J. Edgar Hoover."

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

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

Abacus manufacturer waits for virus to destroy computers.

'...hmm ...I predict an upturn in profits this year.'

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

Telephone Box

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

Floating Dragon

You read the instruction manual for a video game for your book report?

"If you ask me, between my stuff and your stuff, there's nothing left to invent."

"I don't tell you how to gather."

"You know what they say: if you can remember the Sixties then talk about them endlessly on BBC Four documentaries."

"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

Whip-Behind.

A very long fax

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