Vintage Tech Nerd Gifts

The early days of e-mailing.

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

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

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

GO AHEAD ... MAKE MY DAY!

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

Early on-line shopping

Drive in movies.

STRIP Hambone: Early diesel run computer

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

'Oh, relax - you're doing great for your age...but I am a little concerned about out computer's old operating system.'

'1001 things to do whilst waiting to get on the internet.'

"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.'

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

Old Phones Lasagne

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

"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.'

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

"You're right. I have to come up with a brake of some kind."

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

'Gentlemen, invent your engines.'

'We've got to upgrade our computer system. Downloading information on this one takes too long.'

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

Old and new technologies

'I call it 'Myspace'''

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

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

The Final Chapter.

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

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

'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.'

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."