Technology Throwback Enthusiast Mugs

"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.."

'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!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

Early on-line shopping

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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?'

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

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

Technological advances within the office.

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

'I call it 'Myspace'''

'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.'

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

'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?"

Social Media

Old and new technologies

'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

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