Long Runner Tech Marches On: Difference between revisions

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So you are watching early episodes of a show that is set in the [[Present Day]] (or what was the present for when the show came out). In [[Real Life]] when these episodes were written, tech that we now took for granted was just coming out, and the show would reflect this, showing everything from CD-ROMS, the Internet, computers (albeit with command line prompt) cell phones, and what have you as the latest thing.

Simple, '''Long Runner Tech Marches On'''.

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' (the manga version). The TV series [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on this when Belldandy comments on Keiichi still keeping his old appliances from the '80s in mint condition.

* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' has a particularly hard time of this, due to suffering from an extreme case of [[Comic Book Time]]. The series ran for over a decade, but [[Word of God]] claims that only a few months passed in the story (there's a lot of trouble with that statement, including the number of holidays we've seen, and the changing of the seasons.) Either way, the widespread use of cellphones and the rise of personal computers occurred during the run of the series, and became adapted into the stories concurrently, which creates some interesting problems. An early episode had a lunchbox-sized portable fax-machine qualify as an awesome gadget, while a more recent episode had a writer's lack of familiarity with cellphones used as proof that he hadn't left his attic in years. And canonically, those two incidents were - at most - 3 months apart.