Retro Thinker Gifts

Returning Home

"Secure in their ignorance, medieval peasants were impervious to education, fearful of progress and lived on potatoes and cabbage. Thankfully, it's very different today. Now they've got burgers and fries."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

Time Machine Collision

"Milk, butter, bread - all past the expiration date. either he just hadn't noticed before, or his time machine worked."

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

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

Pop Culture for Teens

"There is a 5 month slow down. You are still on the fastest route. You will arrive next year."

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

'My daughter says I'm hopelessly outdated...'

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

"1971... 2015..."

"Boy, these are really overdue!"

'I'd kill for concrete.'

1998: A Look Back

A pilgrim driving a camper leaving the Mayflower ship.

The Bonvoy Age...

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

1930's bather.

What's that, Lance? It's called a newspaper. It's like a Kindle, but instead of your fingers leaving smudges, they get smudged.

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

'Does it have colour?'

Space Rocket.

'It's an e-mail in a bottle!'

The days before television

"I see by your copy of 'Newsweek' that Lyndon Johnson has decided not to run for reelection."

Everything will look perfectly flat...in your Realtek 2D glasses.

"This time I'm sure I've got it right!"

The wonder of modern technology

Today's problems should have been solved in the 1950s, but in the '50s we were solving the problems of the '20s, and in the 20's we were solving the problems of the 1890's.

When you think about it, you have to be a complete idiot NOT to believe aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947. It's clear we reverse-engineered their tech. Before 1947: Primitive cars, planes and radio. After 1947: Spaceships, quantum computing, internet. Let me try ... Before 1947: No bikinis. After 1947: Bikinis. No, wait ... the bikini was 1946. That throws this whole theory into question. We really should have our own science show.

"And our charging station, also a period piece. . ."