Tech History Enthusiast Mugs

Nope, don't think the sheriff likes wearin' that body camera.

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

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

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

Early Colour TV

The original paperless office

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

Fossil record player.

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'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!"

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

"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."

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Old Book Smell

Social Media

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

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

"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','

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

"Television sets evolved from animals. My randpop remembers when they had rabbit ears!"

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."