Vintage Communication T-Shirts

Woman wanting to send a telegram.

Ballot Boxes and Smoke Signals

'Sorry, I really need to take this.'

Early text messaging.

'Looks like the cat's been playing with the telephone cord again.'

Answerphone message in a bottle

"Hello. This is the old man across the street. Get off my lawn!"

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

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

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

Before social media there was sticky notes.

"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

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

'When I was told our new computer was going to be state of the art, no one mentioned it was state of the art in 1954.'

A man watches TV while wearing a Marshall McLuhan sweatshirt.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

Luddite Zoom.

Beachcomber sees that smartphone displays 'message in a bottle.'

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

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

The Original Online Mom.

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

Telephone Box

"Ignore it. Telemarketer."

'Built in obsolescence: Mini with a wind up gramophone.'

Gramophone Headphone

The early version of accidentally hitting 'reply all.'

'I told him not to touch that dial.'

Next Year's Postal Service Marketing Campaign.

"Operator, I'd like to make a person-to-person call, and I'd like to reverse the roles."

"I'm well aware that your e-mail isn't working. I got your first message."

'It's just like e-mail, only you hear people talking.'

20 years as Stamp Club Chaorman and they send my retirement card by E-MAIL.

'W-R-O-N-G Voltagggeeee for a vintage machine like myself.'

'Hello, ACME Exterminators,,, ,,,Hello'