Retro Tech Rebels Gifts

"Stand aside, Gruenwald! It's the computer I'm blowing away!"

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

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

Cord cutter

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

The original paperless office

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

Fossil record player.

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

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."

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'Early Laptops.'

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"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.

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

Technological advances within the office.

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."

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

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

'Sure, I remember using carbon paper. Does that carbon date me?'

'Music & Gym'

Old-fashioned computer

"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."