Tech Throwback Mugs

Surrounded by iPhone users, Harold finds himself unable to answer his unfashionable cellphone.

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

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

Moses on the web

What's wrong with the computer you've got?"

"While you were working on fire, I was working on my satellite. Once we figure out how to launch it into the heavens, other inventions will follow, like phones, GPS, weather predictions. . ."

"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."

'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.

"Thank you for the rewind, Miss Cooper. Now let us fast-forward to that fateful moment in February and hit the pause button."

Social Media

Old and new technologies

Old Book Smell

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

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

Progression of human writing, from chisled stone to computers until 2000 when the computer has blown up

"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."

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

"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.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

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

Computer Sale.

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

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

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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