Tech Vintage Banter Lover Gifts

Rudy, may I have a word with you? Bite me, old coot. I beg your pardon. You can talk to me that way when you've fought a world war, survived a depression and figured out directions to someone's house without help form your mephone!!! iPhone! Potato!! Tomato!! An auspicious start to the peace process.

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

The original paperless office

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

'Oh, relax - you're doing great for your age...but I am a little concerned about out computer's old operating system.'

Drive in movies.

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

The Smartass Phone

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

Before Cordless Light Sabers

Old Phones Lasagne

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

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

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

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

Forty-five words per minute? Impossible!

'Try his land line.'

'Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Floppy Disc and Mopsy.'

'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.'

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

The Final Chapter.

Old-fashioned computer

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."

Natural Stupidity is no match for Artificial Intelligence.