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*** And one where the founder era has showers, paper, tea and coffee, meetings at 15:25, springy metal net beds invented in the 1940s. The usual stuff. What's more, Hufflepuff is supposed to have been born and raised in a Finnish manor house. Tasty, as the area was then still in Iron Age, and entered history in the 1300s.
* [http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/9618311.html This ''Fanficrants'' post] describes a ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fic in which the writer tries and fails badly to avert this, by having Carlisle listen to the radio rather than play video games. In the 17th century.
* The ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' fan fic ''Witches & Woodlands'', which takes place during the year 1986, brings up so many anachronisms that the characters are unable to ignore it: for example, one character mentions reading forums on the Internet despite that not being common practice for another decade or so; another mentions how people will behave when playing [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s once they're invented, and how games will be like in the future. They even mention anachronisms within the actual series itself through their [[Medium Awareness]], particularly when one character dressed up as a character and played a song from ''[[Touhou]]'', which was first released in 1996; said character claims to have made the costume and song herself and plans to sue the companies behind ''[[Touhou]]'' for plagiarism. In the end, everyone agrees that [[Hand Wave|all the anachronisms can be explained with some kind of retarded logic]].
* Sometimes ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fanfictions may have technology existing at a time it should not. However, it seems more common for authors to put groups and organisations of nations in the wrong time period; two examples that have happened at least once are the [[WW 2]] Allies having tactics meetings in the twenty-first century (although the rest of the story made it obvious that the writer at least knew the war was not still happening, so it's unclear what they thought the meetings were for), and G20 meetings occurring at the height of the British Empire.
* In ''the'' ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' [[Troll Fic]] ''[[It's My Life|TEEN FORTRESS 2]]'', naturally, this trope is taken [[Up to Eleven]] as [[Portal: The 4th Millennium Franchise|Principal Business Man was writing stories]] while [[Abraham Lincoln]] was the president.
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