Tech Nostalgia Gifts

Wireless Access Here.

"I could never go wireless."

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'I don't know what it is. It's been here ever since I can remember.'

'Does it have colour?'

"Don't tell me you're still using a phonebook."

"This is taking forever! - How fast was the internet when you were a kid, Grandpa?"

'It's called a digital watch.'

Old and new technologies

"Yes, we do fix phones. But, what is that?"

"I think I'm going to take my kid's advice and go with a phone that doesn't have a cord."

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

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

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

"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.

Social Media

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"Cancel my landline...are you crazy?"

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

"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."

"He told me I was a flip phone expected to do a smart phone job."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

"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."

'And of course if you'e feeling patriotic today, we have here a new line of PCs produced by the federal government.'

'No fax paper? Ok, you'll have to ride for help.'

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

'Sounds good! -- Have your beeper beep my beeper!'