Tech History Buffs Mugs

"What about that! His brain still uses the old vacuum tubes."

'Dial-up service? What's a dial?'

"Let me in to look around. Just this one time and I'll never bother you again..."

Phone.

"Remember always power up you machine clockwise"

"My mom used to do all her texting on that."

Aklexander Graham Bell, making the first call from New York to Chicago, gets a wrong number.

"Grandma, tell us again how your phone was attache to the wall, and you had to turn a wheel to dial a number!"

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

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

Early Colour TV

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

The original paperless office

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

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

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

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

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

Old Phones Lasagne

My url is: http:/how:/um:/powwow.co.chiese.html.

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

"Hackers, Sire! They've broken through our firewall."

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

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Social Media

Old Book Smell

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

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

"When I was your age, all we had to know was how to wind."