Technology History Buff Gifts

"...or for Customer service press 9. If you are on a rotary phone please hang up and go buy a real phone"

Old Phones Lasagne

'Hey, those guys are still using a land line!!'

"Grandpa, tell me about the good ol' days."

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

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

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

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

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

'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."

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

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

"Hackers, Sire! They've broken through our firewall."

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

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

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

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"It called a smart phone. Cool, but no service."

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

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold 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','

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

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

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

"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?"

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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