Test Paper Archivist Gifts

"I started a collection!"

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

Exam

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

'This test doesn't understand me.'

"Is this a 'GOTCHA' question?"

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

"You said mindfulness could help us do well on the test, so I filled it up with as much as I could last night."

Catalogue of little books.

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

'Will Mr. 'No Comment' please remain after class.'

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

Empty Headed Schoolboy

Attic of hopes and dreams...

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

Good Luck with your finals.

'I had no idea there would be a test.'

'I'm afraid I still have more questions than answers.'

Bigger Brain

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

History student: 'I remembered the Alamo ... but forgot everything else!'

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

'What makes me mad, I was only a couple seats away from all the right answers!'

'Lost Diary'