Technological History Mugs

'You put a round thing on a spinning plate with a needle and then you play with buttons and knobs...only old people know how to do it.'

"I must have completely lost track of the time..."

"I don’t know what your invention’s called, but it’s really irritating."

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

Early Colour TV

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

'If only Darwin could have seen this.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

Old Phones Lasagne

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

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

"I get it!"

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

"I've had a tip off that someone on the team has been using email."

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

Museum. Celtic smiths were the first to add iron rims to chariot wheels. They should have called them "ferrous wheels"!

Air Pollution Threat

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'

Caveman to wheel inventor: 'Nice invention - how do you boot it up?'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

"Can you give us another formula? We aired this visual yesterday."

"This thing isn't working."

Signs grampa has run out of 'When I Was Your Age' stories.

Phone Call

Computer Address Book.