Vintage Tech Historian Gifts

"Grandpa!"

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

The original paperless office

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

Early Colour TV

Fossil record player.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'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.'

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

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

My url is: http:/how:/um:/powwow.co.chiese.html.

Boombox

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

Old Phones Lasagne

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

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

and this little light starts blinking when your computer becomes obsolete

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

Social Media

The Final Chapter.

'Peter Rabbit and his sisters, Floppy Disc and Mopsy.'

'Try his land line.'

How to create a password you can remember...

"I've had a tip off that someone on the team has been using email."

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

"He's teaching me map skills, such as how to fold it."

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

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

B2B.Com Pay Per View.

"It's a flip phone. I guess we can document this as an ancient, archaeological discovery."

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

"When I was your age, all we had to know was how to wind."