Before the laptop computer, there was the laptop typewriter.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

I'm not sure what he's smoking.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.

We checked, and it turns out to be true -- happiness is, indeed, an overhead projector, and as this technology becomes increasingly obsolete, sadness spreads across the globe.  From Wake Forest's 1975 yearbook.

Chocolate pie!  From The Nation's Health, 1921.

Here's a precursor to The King of Nothing (of which nothing is known but that he is king).  From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1923 yearbook.

It's now politically incorrect to call foreign languages "strange tongues."  We once studied strange tongues but didn't keep in practice (we weren't friends with enough strangers), so now we're better at reading strangely than speaking strangely.  From North Central's 1986 yearbook.

Do you already know the secrets of Fluency in 5 Minutes?

Formal wear.  From Tulane's 1983 yearbook.

Not sure why this is captioned "oddball stuff."  For some of us, this is a typical day.  From Mansfield's 1969 yearbook.

You've heard of "Joe College," but did you assume he wasn't an actual person?  Here he is, in the Municipal University of Omaha's 1951 yearbook.