Tech Nostalgics Gifts

A Native American making smoke signals consults index cards.

A Blackberry tombstone

'These mobiles are a real pain!'

"Contact us on the mobile when you arrive"

"Talk about low tech..."

Old Book Smell

"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..."

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

"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?'

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

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

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

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

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

Social Media

Old and new technologies

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

"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."

'...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."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

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

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

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

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

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