Tech History Lover Mugs

Early Colour TV

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

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

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'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'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

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."

Old Phones Lasagne

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

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

"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

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

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

Social Media

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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.'