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"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..."

"I'll never forget you."

"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."

'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?"

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

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

Social Media

"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."

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

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

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

'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.'

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

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

Computer Sale.

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

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

'Apparently the poor love's walkman is broken.'

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor