Tech Throwback Aficionado Gifts

"I never thought I'd miss ringtones!"

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

"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..."

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

'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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

"It's another e-mail from your folks. You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you'd just tell them about the Web."

"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."

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

"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."

'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.'

'Built in obsolescence: Mini with a wind up gramophone.'

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

What's that? A car phone. All I need now is a car.

Computer Sale.

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

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"