Retro Vs. Tech Gifts

A group of people in an art gallery staring at a phone

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

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

"It only goes forwards and backwards. So, you won't need a GPS."

The Missing Sock Returns

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

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

Cord cutter

Early Adopter...Early Opt-Outer

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

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

Early Colour TV

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

The original paperless office

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

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Fossil record player.

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

Early on-line shopping

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

Colonial Larrysburg.

The Old Time Television Channel

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

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

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

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

'Early Laptops.'

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

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

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