Technology Throwback Lover Mugs

'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."

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."

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

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

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."

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Old-fashioned computer

Social Media

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

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

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

'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.'

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

"Yes, we do fix phones. But, what is that?"

Old and new technologies