Retro Tech Lover Mugs

'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.'

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

E-Bahgum Mail

'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.'

Evolution of Phones

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."

Early camera selfie stick

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

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

Pigeon: 'Ever heard of Text Messaging?'

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

'That's revolutionary.'

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

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

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

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

Telephobia

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

"Hello, I'm on the train!"

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

"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."

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

Woman mistakes a camera for a gun

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

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

The early days of e-mailing.

'For the last time NO, I do not wish to upgrade my phone!'

'You're not to call grandma's phone a dumb phone.'

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

"No, we're all out of typewriter ribbon...THIRTY YEARS AGO!!"

'I feel worthless.'

'Mafia Online.'