Technological History Pillows

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'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'If only Darwin could have seen this.'

'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.'

"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

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

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

"I get it!"

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

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

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

Air Pollution Threat

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

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

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

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

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

The Thinker (Millennials Edition)

Computer Address Book.

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

'Mom, you wouldn't believe all the stuff people had to know before computers!'

Phone Call

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