Tech History Lover Mugs

Early Colour TV

"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.'

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'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

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

"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.'

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

Old Phones Lasagne

"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."

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

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

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

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

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

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

"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','

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

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

"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."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.