Tech Nostalgia Enthusiast Gifts

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

'You're not to call grandma's phone a dumb phone.'

"These cuts to the IT budget have been brutal, huh?"

"Do you have one of those phones you can talk to people on?"

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

Technophobes Illustrated Dictionary: Mouse Pad - What a particularly groovy boy mouse brings a really far-out girl mouse back to at the end of the night.

"Why can't they be satisfied with a simple checkout scanner?!"

Floppy Cafe

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

'I'm not saying he's too old, but he has a five-inch floppy disk drive.'

'Before I begin today's lesson, please turn off your cell phones, beepers and ipods.'

Custer's Last PC!

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

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Media

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

Old Book Smell

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

Old and new technologies

"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."

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

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

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

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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