Telecom Nostalgist Gifts

Early Variations of the Car Phone.

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

'Yes, as a matter of fact, you have caught me at a bad time.'

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

"Oh great, the printer is down."

All of our representatives are busy right now. Stay on the line and someone will be with you in a few miles.

Before social media there was sticky notes.

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

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

Old Book Smell

Social Media

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

Phone. Oh, no! My Clark Kent clothes are gone! Secret Identity Theft.

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

'And now for the anesthesia: I've got plenty of conventional anesthetics I could use here but you can also choose to spend half an hour on the phone with my mother...'

"I've had a tip off that someone on the team has been using email."

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

"Television sets evolved from animals. My randpop remembers when they had rabbit ears!"

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."

Abandoned Vehicles Along The Information Superhighway.

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

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

'And of course if you'e feeling patriotic today, we have here a new line of PCs produced by the federal government.'

"For some reason I can relate to this computer that's been built with old parts."

"I can't use the computer tonight -- Dad has to scroll to his year of birth."

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

Computer Sale.

STRIP Hambone: Using Tippex on a monitor

'I can't keep up with technology either.'

Encyclopedia

'Modem Times,'

"Thanks Dad. How much did you pay for this mp3 player?"

'If you don't mind, I'm trying to use the telephone here.'

Gramophone Headphone