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In a Long Runner series set in the Present Day, contemporary technology quickly becomes dated as Technology Marches On, and the writers quietly bring in new gadgets appropriate to the year. This normally works fine until you start watching reruns of early episodes and notice how dated everything is to what was the present when they first came out. If the storyline is still meant to be set at roughly the same time as the early episodes, then this can trouble the viewer or reader's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. In Real Life when these episodes were written, tech that we now take for granted was just appearing, and the show would reflect this, showing everything from big desktop computers, CD-ROMs, the Internet, cell phones and what-have-you as the latest thing. Fast forward years later, and in order to keep up with the real world, the characters are now using laptops, iPods, broadband Internet, smartphones, etc. But wait, that episode that came out 15 years ago was set only a year or two ago in the series' storyline. How is it that the characters were touting tape decks as the next big thing, yet only a short time later older members of the cast are reminiscing about their old Walkmans, and younger members have no idea what a cassette even is, even though they were the ones lugging them around back in the first few seasons? The trope only counts when the characters of the series don't obviously age, and/or it is shown that the series is set around the same timeframe throughout. Drawn media (such as comic books and animation) and written media are the primary culprits — live-action shows normally let time progress as it does in the real world, e.g. events from four seasons ago are stated to have happened four years ago in-universe. This is a Sub-Trope of Comic-Book Time, Long Runner, and Technology Marches On. Sister Trope to Not Allowed to Grow Up, Present-Day Past, and Webcomic Time where the passage of time in-universe does not keep up with the span of publication in real life. See also Zeerust, where a "futuristic" design element is outdated by the real-world march of technology, materials science, aesthetics and/or social values, and Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel, where a chronologically-earlier installment in a series looks more modern than its predecessor(s) due to advances in VFX. Compare Unintentional Period Piece. Examples |
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