Tech History Explorer Gifts

"We hired him because he's the only one who knows how they work."

Robotic Man

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

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

"How was I supposed to know that the apple was a controlled substance?"

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

Connected to Technology.

Your Future Home.

Fossil record player.

"Well, Comstock, still regret putting our profits back into research?"

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'The secret to great wealth and spiritual contentment? Ok, hold on...I think I've got an app for that..'

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Early Programmers.

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

'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.'

"When it comes to online marketing, I'm puzzled."

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

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

Old Phones Lasagne

"I was doing well in school and planning to be a computer programmer - but somewhere along the way I must have taken a wrong turn."

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

'We haven't the foggiest what it does,but it plugs into a computer and retails for three fifity.'

Information Tightrope.

"Hello ... Susan ... Joe ... Not ... Make ... It ... Me ... Joe's ... Robot ... Me ... Programmed ... Take ... You ... Dinner ..."

"Home is where the WiFi is."

Entomology Reference

'I need a text-mail interpreter.'

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

Another new, really cool-looking gadget in a desperate search for a problem to solve.

The Thinker