Vintage Technology Admirer Gifts

Startling Effects.

A francophile to the last, he went the way of Concord, the 2CV and the Minitel.

The First phone call was not exactly as history books report it.

"That's an old time GPS."

'This is one of our most recent vintages!'

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

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

Riverboat 4 Square Hustlers

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

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

Drive in movies.

Roasted

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

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

Old Phones Lasagne

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

'My - You've matured, my dear.'

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

"It was her mothers"

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

'Try his land line.'

Forty-five words per minute? Impossible!

'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.'

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

John Bull presenting the building for the 1862 International Exhibition to Britannia

A man watches TV while wearing a Marshall McLuhan sweatshirt.

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

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

The Final Chapter.

Too young for the sixties, too squeamish for the seventies, too unambitious for the eighties, too technophobic for the 90s, too poor for the '00s, too old for the 'teens."

Natural Stupidity is no match for Artificial Intelligence.

Beavers worshipping a chainsaw.

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

'I want a computing system that has a few more games programmed into it.'