Retro Tech Lover Gifts

'When I was your age the whole family had to gather around just one screen.'

"No one's available to answer the door. At the sound of the beep, please leave."

Early Computers Took Up Whole Rooms

'I was real visionary. I was a web designer before there was an internet.'

Evolution of Phones

E-Bahgum Mail

"These are cleverer than smart phones. They're graduated cylinders."

'You put a round thing on a spinning plate with a needle and then you play with buttons and knobs...only old people know how to do it.'

'All I did for him, and he just dumped me for new media.'

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."

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

Pigeon: 'Ever heard of Text Messaging?'

Early camera selfie stick

"Kid, with your circuits, and my contacts, we're goin' all da way."

"TV was more fun when I was your age. You could spend hours playing with the contrast, the horizontal hold, and fiddling with the rabbit ears."

"...and in here we just let the computers get on with it."

"Hello, I'm on the train!"

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

'I don't have the heart to tell him that electric typewriters aren't REALLY the latest thing.'

'Sir, it's time to upgrade our technology. We've used up the last of our computer punch cards.'

"We hired him because he's the only one who knows how they work."

'That's revolutionary.'

Telephobia

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

'Mafia Online.'

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

"I can tell much more about you if I read your Palm Pilot."

"One day, son, all this will rule your life too."

'Hi! I'm selling CD-Rom Encyclopedias...'

'I feel worthless.'

'Thank you for calling the sex pistols advice line. However, there's no point in asking as you'll get no reply.'

"It's our last model without GPS. Your wife will never know where you are."

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

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

Woman mistakes a camera for a gun