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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The anime ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' (the [[Trope Namer]]) opens each episode with a voice saying "Present day. Present time." and then laughing, even though much of the technology suggest the show probably takes place in the future or some alternate world.
** Many fans speculate that the ending turns this strange "present day" into the present day as we know it through [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]]. There's still a detail or two that don't quite fit in, though.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' shows us what happens when this is used and [[Technology Marches On]]--who uses VCRs anymore? Its setting is thus relegated to sometime in the mid-nineties, when the series was made. It helps that no actual dates are mentioned.
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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'' has a good example of a "dated" present day: being made in 2001, Liberty City looks like any modern metropolis, but if you pay attention, you see how the 1998-2000 dot-com boom, when the businessmen discovered the Internet, is still in full strength.
** To top it off, the [http://www.rockstargames.com/libertytree/ online version of the fictional ''Liberty Tree'' news website] reports events in Liberty City as if they were actually unfolding in the months leading up to the release of ''GTA III''.
** The original ''[[Grand Theft Auto Classic|Grand Theft Auto]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars]]'' follow this trope in a similar vain. These games take place in timelines relative to the time periods the games debuted, but make no mention of the exact date or year<ref>though a food vendor's business permit and police records in ''GTA IV'' hint the game taking place in 2007 (the original expected year of release for the game) or later</ref>. This ambiguity allowed developers of [[Grand Theft Auto IV the Lost And Damned|downloadable]] [[Grand Theft Auto:
== [[Web Original]] ==
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