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..."

"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..."

"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?'

"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

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

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.'

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

Old and new technologies

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

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

"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!"

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.'

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

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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

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

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