Throwback Tech Lover Gifts

A moth with a palm pilot.

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

"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?"

'I'd explain how the TV, VCR, DVD, surround sound home entertainment system works...but I don't know.'

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

The original paperless office

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

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

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

Early on-line shopping

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

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."

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

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

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

"I know we said we would get you a laptop.. but this will have to do until business gets better."

"I know we said we'd get you a laptop,but this will have to do until business improves."

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

"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?'

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

Technological advances within the office.