Things you can rely on

dazzajl

Shamelessly stolen from the interweb. 

stickyfiddle

Yep. Though some idiots pissed about with round wound strings in the middle there. 

roberty

It's a phone with a computer attached to it

We attach computers to instruments now, too

Funkfingers

PEDANTRY CORNER

• P Bass unavailable until 1951
• Split pickup and forearm contour = 1954

  

stickyfiddle said:

some idiot's pissed about 

Now that almost everybody has a smartphone and public telephone kiosks are disappearing, where do people nip to for a slash?

ICBM

Funkfingers beat me to the most important item of pedantry, so I'll add that mobile phones as shown in the 1980 pic didn't exist until 1985 either.

dazzajl

I bet if I’d have posted this with a tele, guitarists wouldn’t have noticed any of this shit

Funkfingers

Well, actually, now you come to mention it, the "Telecaster" was not available in 1950 either. :-p

It was still the Broadcaster or, in a few cases, the two-pickup Esquire.