Tech Nostalgist Gifts

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

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

'Wo! Look at that thing! What a brilliant idea!'

'When I was a student, wireless data transmission meant passing notes in class.'

Mailbox-computer

"Relax, I've come for your software."

"iPad, huh? When I was your age, I remember getting hold of a piece of carbon paper once. Amused myself for days after I figured out how it worked."

'Dude, it's time for you to hang it up,'

'At this rate, we'll never become obsolete.'

'Mrs. Nortman just sent in this fax of a rash that she's got on her stomach.'

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

"I miss the old days when all you needed to get rid of incriminating information was a paper shedder."

Encyclopedia

'Modem Times,'

"Thanks for letting me use your telephone, Grandma, but where is the 'Send' button?"

B.C. (Before Cellular)

Telephone Retirement

'Oh no, it's his answer machine again!'

'Our computer teacher must be real old. She remembers using Windows 3.1.'

'Sorry it's taking so long to load. I'm still on dial-up.'

Grandparents and technology

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

"...My name's Claire and I use Windows 2000."

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

"You are entitled to one call, one fax, or one E-mail."

Senior citizen using landline phone as a mobile

Telephone in a computer screen.

'My computer is so old it's voice changed.'

"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."

"I should take all our old computers, gadgets and phones out of the attic. The ceiling can no longer take the weight."

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

'He looks for 'vibrations'. With luck I'll get my cellphone back.'

In the near future. . . 'Back in the 'old days'...a mail carrier would walk house to house delivering mail six days a week!'

Years ago, the world watched us on TV. Now all we get is a You Tube link.