Technology Throwback Enthusiast Gifts

"Won't the neighbours be jealous when they see our new 'high definition visual entertainment system'?"

"My homework is late because I still have dial-up."

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

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

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

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

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

Early on-line shopping

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

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

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

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

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

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

Technological advances within the office.

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

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

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

'I call it 'Myspace'''

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

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

Old and new technologies