Vintage Communication Fan Gifts

"Talk faster. I'm on a land line and I have the feeling we'll soon be disconnected."

'Uh oh, Kemosabe...We're being spammed!'

"You're actually passing notes in class? That is so retro!"

'At the tone please leave your name and number.'

'OK operator if it ain't 5000 try Pensylvania 65001.'

"Thank you very much, but I'm more than satisfied with my present long-distance carrier."

Ballot Boxes and Smoke Signals

'Can you hold for one second...I've got an incoming smoke signal. I'd better take this.'

'Sorry, I really need to take this.'

'It from Nigerian Banker's widow, Kemosabe.'

'You have smoke.'

Man in a phone booth using a mobile phone.

"Okay, we've text, tweeted and emailed the old man. Does anyone know Morse code?"

Couriers and their customers often share a warm relationship.

"Oh, he's sending a text by flag...he can't be doing with that techy stuff."

"Dear Wendy, please excuse the tardiness of my response to your recent tweet from Hoboken."

Best before 65 million BC.

'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."

"Dammit all, haven't they heard of e-mail?"

Adult Barbershop

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

"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

'This kind of thing will never take off.'

Stret boy making a comment about a military man

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

Tea and Sugar Rationing

A gentleman giving some children a lesson in manners

'Dauber Micawber'

Mr Briggs's Pleasures of Horsekeeping - No. II

"I suppose you're using all the modern technology, dynamic packaging, skype, web marketing..." "Yes, we even use carrier-pigeon.com."

"He says, 'What hath god wrought...' What should I write back?"

"Just a minute - I'm uploading."

"I love your shadow, it's so retro."