Telecom Throwback Gifts

"That's a rotary phone, from when people used their forefinger to call instead of their thumb."

Before social media there was sticky notes.

Old and new technologies

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

Old Book Smell

"He told me I was a flip phone expected to do a smart phone job."

'Sounds good! -- Have your beeper beep my beeper!'

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Does it have colour?'

'He's so behind the times - his Hot Line is rotary!'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

'This is a prerecorded message. Thank you for rubbing me. Please state your name and your wish. I will get back to you as soon as possible.'

"Dr. Jenkins was too cheap to buy a state-of-the-art EHR system so he bought this at a public library auction instead."

'It's called a digital watch.'

"I could never go wireless."

Very old fashioned computer.

'Where's the autocorrect?'

Scanning documents

A.T.&T.'s New Competitors

Wireless Access Here.

A Native American making smoke signals consults index cards.

'I don't know what it is. It's been here ever since I can remember.'

'Hea-hea. . . that's an old AOL disk.'

Hello, Rolf? This is Cecily. I was going to break up with you either on Twitter or Facebook, but my girlfriends told me I should be brave enough and do it the old-fashioned: over the telephone. ! !

Frank finally found a place to call home.

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

"We saved a lot of money by investing in older computers. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go figure out why our profits are down."

"Don't bother talking to your grandfather. He's unplugged himself."

Don't you think that we raised the telephone charges little too much?

Always leave the booth at the sound of the BEEEEEP!

Sculpture of a telephone wire.

Computer add-on.

Endangered Species

The demise of newspaper threw up some unexpected problems for laptops.

"I tell you, I remember when all this was protoplasm"