Technology Historian Gifts

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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?'

'Sorry, guys. I can't go out. I'm grounded.'

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

'Wow -- Grandpa's got an immobile phone!'

'In my dreams, I can still hear him saying, 'You have low memory storage capacity.''

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

Fossil record player.

'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.'

"Scratch and sniff ... it smells like mimeograph paper."

After 39 years, 11 months, 28 days, Moses finally received the GPS he ordered from Amazon.

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

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

"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."

Old Phones Lasagne

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

My url is: http:/how:/um:/powwow.co.chiese.html.

Archeologists discover Egyptian Computers.

"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?"

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

"When I was your age, all we had to know was how to wind."

The dead sea scrolls

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

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

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

Phone Call

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!'

"It's my latest invention - I call it 'Fire point two oh'!"