Technology Throwback Lover Gifts

'The copier's died on me. Can you send a replacement?'

Old lady mobile.

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

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

The original paperless office

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

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

"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..."

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

'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?"

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

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

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

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Technological advances within the office.

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

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

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

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

Old-fashioned computer

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

Of course we're faster and more powerful now. I just think we commanded more respect when we filled an entire room.

Old Book Smell

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

Old and new technologies