thumbs up

facebug [click to embiggen]

Oh, man, those Sprint commercials killed me.

Transcript:

Mr and Mrs Bugg are standing facing us, wearing tuxedo jackets and bow ties. Mrs Bugg’s arms are raised in approved declamatory fashion, and has a speech bubble which says “Greg has friended u”, which is causing Mr Bugg to have the sadface.

The text reads: “Febuggary 4, 2004: FaceBugg is founded!!!”

 

wiki wiki wiki

wik [click to embiggen]

I loves me some Wikipedia.

Transcript:

Mr Bugg is holding a tablet computer and scratching his head. Mrs Bugg is also holding a tablet. She’s making this face: :\ She’s also wearing some huge black boots.

The text reads: “Janubug 15, 2001: Wikibuggdia goes online. Buggs everywhere get distracted. Acceptable nerd prawn.”

 

next stop: the internet

IBuggM [click to embiggen]

OK, we’re a good fifteen years ahead of that happy day, but nevermind. It’s still a milestone.

Transcript:

Mr and Mrs Bugg stand on either side of what is probably a blackboard, or maybe an overhead projector, displaying some strange computer code. It appears to say “Mr Bugg equals squiggly X times something times the Reliquary symbol times Q”, then “Mrs Bugg equals pi times X over Z times the square root of the radius”, whatever that means.

The text reads: “Janubug 7, 1954: The Buggtown-IBuggM experiment demonstrates machine translation at New Bugg City, the head office of IBuggM.”

 

flipping

flip phone [click to embiggen]

Ahh, the Buggs’ favorite cell phone form factor!

Transcript:

Mr and Mrs Bugg are smiling their heads off, each waving the nirvana of mobile-phone technology: the flip phone. Of course the phones have antennae.

The text read: “Janubugg 3, 1996: The Motobugla BugTAC is the first flip phone.”