Tech Reminiscer Prints

'I'm old enough to remember when smiley faces were right side up.'

"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."

"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."

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

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

Social Media

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

Old Book Smell

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.'

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

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

'...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."

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

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

'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.'

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

Computer Sale.

"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."

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

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

Encyclopedia

'Modem Times,'

"Nothing yet. Try sending me another text."

"Thanks Dad. How much did you pay for this mp3 player?"