Technology Historian Pillows

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.'

I'll trade you my phone for a latte. Pardon? You'll love it. It's vintage. A collector's item. It's from 1998. I bought it from a really old man in a magic shop last year. No deal. Come on! It's not like the shop vanished as soon as I left it. And it's not like I keep getting mysterious late-night calls on it from people in 1998 who keep telling me jokes I've already heard a million times. And it's not like the magic shop man told me I can only get rid of the phone by selling it or trading it. R

"Tia Carmen, tell me about when you were a little girl..."

'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.'

Early Colour TV

The original paperless office

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'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

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

Old Phones Lasagne

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

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','

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

"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."

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.'

Computer Address Book.

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