Technology Nostalgist Gifts

"Before I read about my summer vacation, I'd like to ask that all pagers, beepers, and cell phones be turned off."

"Oh great, the printer is down."

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

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

"Grandma says in her day they had something better than a chat room. It was called a party line."

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

'Scroll down, no sorry, scroll up...OK now scroll down again...'

"I miss the old days, when everything was attached with wires."

"Grandpa!"

LOVE your retro phone chic!

'My Grandpa's weird - He has a phone without a camera and a camera without a phone.'

"On a pencil, this is called an eraser, not the delete button."

"I liked it better when there wasn't so much data."

"Do you like my four wheel drive?"

"You don't need your selfie stick...the booth takes selfies for you!"

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

"A hand held device gives me the freedom to leave the cave more often."

"Most of you won't know what this is. It's a blackboard."

TV Smoke Signal

'My battery's out - I'll phone you from the museum.'

"I'm about to be substituted, can you check Ceefax to see if he's still manager"

'Do you remember when all we had to do was go to the filing cabinet and take out the file.'

Sell me your souls and I'll make all cell phones and computers go away."

'Y'know, I came here long before there was all that modern technology!'

5-6 pm: Unhappy hour - mourn the loss of jobs to apps, bots, drones.

Native American Faxes

'Yes, Fluffy was a great dog and to honor her memory, we've decided to keep her name as part of our computer password.'

'Look, he's sending us a text message.'

Future world records

"I've just been offered a job sorting out the Y1K bug.."

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

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

"I'll never forget you."

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"Call Harris back from retirement and ask him how we did things around here before computers."