Retro Technology Fans Gifts

An Irishman unfamiliar with how a telephone works

"Cool phone features of the 90s"

His master's voice gramophone with a 'listen again' facility.

'These are the VCR tapes I recorded, but never watched.'

"They have to keep me - I'm the only one here who knows how to answer a landline call."

"Clubs, clothes, and now fire? I'm feeling overwhelmed with the current pace of technological change."

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

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

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

Cord cutter

Gramophone dreams of mp3 player.

'I'm too hot to trot.'

Old rocker.

An old-time engineer enters the cockpit on a flight.

The perfect choice for president?... Stephen Colbert!

"Do you do much walking?"

"Remember you told me to put my client list on my computer."

'When played backwards these say terrible things like 'do your homework' and 'clean your room.''

Drive in movies.

"This is my client's videotaped deposition—please be considerate and rewind after viewing."

'Early Laptops.'

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

Punk rocker passing punk codger in street.

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

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

Of course we're faster and more powerful now. I just think we commanded more respect when we filled an entire room.

Computation Lite, 13 Computations Than Our Regular Formulas.

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

"The next song is for all you unreconstructed commies, who are still in love with their tractors."

"Can't fix the WiFi? How times flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

'Sir, we need to upgrade our technology. We've used up our last roll of ticker tape.'

"Now that I've invented it, I have-this odd compulsion to hold it in my hand whenever I go and glance at it incessantly."

"I've had a tip off that someone on the team has been using email."