Technological Throwback Gifts

Computers Always Down - Sorry, out of business.

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

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

"Oh great, the printer is down."

Fossil record player.

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

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

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

Man hitting a TV and going out of focus himself.

"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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

"Cancel my landline...are you crazy?"

Old Book Smell

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

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

Old and new technologies

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

"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."

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."

"Oh, come on, you know we should have switched to touch-tone years ago."

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

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

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

'This old VCR warms a mean bagel.'

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

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

Young Geeks.

'No fax paper? Ok, you'll have to ride for help.'

Computer Sale.

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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