Tech Nostalgia Fan Gifts

'I was just ringing to see if you received the letter about the e-mails I sent you?'

"No, I don't have anything against Twitter, but can we just go back to using hand signals?"

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

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

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

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

"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.

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

Social Media

Old Book Smell

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

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

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

Old and new technologies

"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."

"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.

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

Computer Sale.

"For some reason I can relate to this computer that's been built with old parts."

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

"I can't use the computer tonight -- Dad has to scroll to his year of birth."

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

'I can't keep up with technology either.'

'Modem Times,'

Encyclopedia

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