Tech Nostalgia Pillows

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.."

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

"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.

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

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.

Social Media

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"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...'

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

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

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