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Modern works are often set in modern times, especially when the creators want to appeal to a young, hip audience. As a means of definitively proving that they themselves are securely young and hip, the creators may highlight how a character, perhaps of their own age or older, is not in any way. A common way to do this is to have the cool young people using some technology invented since Christmas and the ever-wanting-to-seem-cool older person wanting to get involved but having absolutely no clue what on Earth their gadgets are. Often Played for Laughs when it's the parent who pretends to know what it is before hastily leaving, or trying to punish the kids by confusedly confiscating their... gizmo. May trigger a "back in my day" story. Compare Fish out of Temporal Water, when someone is displaced from their own time and can't possibly know what all the new technology is, rather than choosing not to catch up because of any number of reasons the older character may have: the olden days were better; they see tech as more trouble than it's worth, unnecessary, or extraneous; or there's no point because it will be replaced by something else in a few years anyway. Contrast What Are Records?, the inverse, and Phoneaholic Teenager. Subtrope of Technophobia. Subtrope of Hopeless with Tech, which is not about any age group. See also Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure. |
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Commander Vimes has absolutely no patience with the imp-powered gadgets his wife keeps buying him, and especially with the successive generations of personal organisers, which might be useful if he could be bothered to figure out the correct things to ask them to do. He seems to get on better with the Mark 5 ("the Gooseberry") in Thud!, possibly because it's finally user-friendly enough that he can just say things to it. | |
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Truth Seekers: Richard starts off as this: he doesn't realize he can access the internet on his phone, and embarrasses himself attempting to record a video response to Helen's Youtube channel. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh", Abe Simpson is shown to be very inept with modern kitchen appliances, to the point of nearly starting a fire. | |
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A recurring gag in the Like a Dragon series is that protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, who's in his 40s and 50s for most of the series, generally has a poor grasp on technology. One Substory in Yakuza 5 has him asked to fix a computer and his options include either hitting it or yelling at it. The sixth game even shows that he types via finger pecking. He does at least update to using a Smartphone for the later games (primarily for the sake of Product Placement) and one substory in 6 has him developing a friendship with a Siri parody. | |
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In Kevin & Kell, we're not told exactly how old Sheldon Dome the turtle is, but he began to distrust modern technology when his wife ran off with an abacus salesman. | |
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Nate's mom from Yo-kai Watch seems pretty young (probably under 35) but isn't up-to-date with the internet. In the dub she says "(...) No one understands kids these days with their Snapbooks and Facechats". | |
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Castle: Castle tells Alexis that he's going to set a new content filter on their computer to limit her exposure to tabloid information. An amused Alexis reminds him that he had to ask for her help to set up the content filter level they already have. | |
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Master Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) is this trope, as he's wise and a master of ninjutsu, but has no idea how to work Donatello's custom built cell phones or how to get the Battle Shell started. Mildly justified in that, in this continuity, he's an Uplifted Animal who simply has no experience with the technology his sons use. | |
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Averted in an episode of The Good Wife where a Chumhum (Bland-Name Product for Google) lawyer is showing a cartoonish video showing how the search engine's algorithm works. The judge, an elderly man with a hearing aid, is looking at the screen with an expression that's meant to convey "I'm totally confused." Finally, he interrupts the video and asks a very technical question. The lawyer, dumbfounded, confirms. The judge then tells the lawyer to stop the video. There's no jury in this trial, and he's well-versed on the subject matter. His confused look was simply because of the cartoonish way it was all being presented. No one said a judge couldn't have a computer background. | |
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A frequent joke on What We Do in the Shadows (2019) is that vampires more than a century old often struggle with modern technology, such as getting an email from "Mailer-Daemon" and thinking it's literally a demon, or a technology becoming obsolete in the time it took them to master it, such as sending each other video messages...on cassette, and by physical mail. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: The most advanced piece of technology that Kusuri's grandmother Yaku can manage is a Tin-Can Telephone. During a Baby Morph Episode, Kusuri attempts to see if Yaku might handle a smartphone better with her younger mind. To Kusuri's rage, she treats it like a menko card and slaps it on the ground. | |
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Discussed by Greg in Diary of a Wimpy Kid where his dad, Frank, is against Greg's love for video games and tries to dismantle his video game system. Greg says the reason his dad had to give up is because video game consoles are designed to be "parent-proof". However, Frank is middle-aged, not elderly. | |
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Full Frontal Nerdity: In one comic Nelson complains about spending his Christmas helping relatives with tech problems. For instance, his father somehow changed his computer's language settings to Swedish. | |
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An early Dilbert story arc had Dogbert running a school for technology imbeciles, one of whom is brought in by his young daughter who claimed he was bright until they got the VCR. She's proven right when he tries to cook a VHS tape in a microwave. | |
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Kim Possible features a shot of a post Drakken wrote on Villainstagram. He posts about how he has difficulty uploading to the site. Drakken is only middle-aged at most but he's not savvy about stuff that's popular with teens and younger adults. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Inverted by Calvin's dad, who is quite tech-savvy but frequently goes on long diatribes against the multiplication of technology only bringing more stress into everyone's lives. Ironically, he's a patent attorney. | |
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Garfield: Old Man Yarber is so out of touch with technology he tries to control a tractor with a whip. Jon's father is an example too; when he visited Jon, he tried to use the bathroom tap as a pump handle. |
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King of the Hill: In "Pour Some Sugar On Kahn", Minh's father, General Gum, tries to make Kahn put music on his wristwatch ("DRAG AND DROP!!!"), only stopping when Kahn reminds him he has an ordinary analog watch. | |
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Discworld has several Magitek versions: None of the senior wizards really understand what Hex (the High Energy Magic Building's ant-powered computer) even is. To be fair, the younger wizards don't entirely understand it either, but at least they have theories as to why not. Commander Vimes has absolutely no patience with the imp-powered gadgets his wife keeps buying him, and especially with the successive generations of personal organisers, which might be useful if he could be bothered to figure out the correct things to ask them to do. He seems to get on better with the Mark 5 ("the Gooseberry") in Thud!, possibly because it's finally user-friendly enough that he can just say things to it. Granny Weatherwax in Equal Rites says she can't use a younger witch's crystal ball. This wouldn't normally count as even magical technology, except that she specifically refers to it as "that damn silicon stuff". |
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Ralph from Ralph Breaks the Internet was created in the 1980s and has a harder time adjusting to the modern 2010s internet than the younger Vanellope (who is physically a child and was created in the late 1990s to early 2000s). | |
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Invoked in the first revival season of Murphy Brown: the title character saw no use in smartphones or social media, and still used a Motorola flip phone. That is, until she came out of retirement (20 years after the original season finale) to join a cable news channel, and the network's social media intern pushed Brown onto an iPhone so she could use Twitter (but not before he gazed in awe at her "vintage" cellphone). Averted, however, when Brown gets the hang of it a little too well, and almost immediately gets into a Flame War with a certain president. | |
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The 5th chapter of Gohan no Otomo opens with an old guy having trouble operating his laptop, despite his daughter's repeated instructions. Frustrated, he storms out of the house and meets a couple of fellow elderly men in the cafe who discuss about their own difficulties of using gadgets such as TV remote or cellphone, and how they usually let their children handle the tech. The guy eventually learns to use technology, however, and in chapter 9, he is shown to be using a smartphone with little trouble. | |
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In Murder by Numbers (2020) Detective Cross has trouble working new (mid 90s) technology, with a sole exception being a GPS. | |
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Carmen Sandiego: V.I.L.E.'s tech expert, The Troll, set up an app that would allow them to easily hack into a celebrity chef's accounts by scanning his retina. Unfortunately, the agents who wind up being responsible for carrying out the plan are the Cleaners. They struggle to even open the phone and don't seem to know what an app icon even is, much less use the app itself. | |
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Whang-chul from Extracurricular starts the series with a flip phone—a cracked one, no less. Ji-soo, the protagonist, later makes him get a more modern phone and then an iPad, for the latter he includes an entire instructional manual. | |
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My Name Is Earl: Although not actually an elder (he's only 35), a Running Gag is that Earl Hickey is not very adept with technology. He thinks the fish screensaver on a computer is really an aquarium twice, and gets very confused when he jiggles the mouse and the screensaver goes away. He is also dumbfounded that there are books on tape (thinking they're printed on literal adhesive tape), books on CD, and even MP3-format audiobooks for an iPod. (He also doesn't know what that is.) May be justified on the grounds that Earl lives in a town filled with destitution, and poor people often cannot afford to purchase new technology as it comes out. | |
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Undertale: If Toriel, a kindly middle-aged goat lady, lives, she can learn how to text on her phone. She texts exactly like you'd expect, writing long, drawn-out messages, texting you back to correct previous spelling mistakes, and even getting into an impersonation-war with Sans. | |
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In Dream Daddy, the Dadsona, a middle-aged man, struggles with understanding modern technological terms such as being "left on read", and also asks his teenage daughter Amanda for help in setting up his Dadbook account. | |
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Sachi Enoki of Kindred Spirits on the Roof was 17-18 at the time of her death, but since she died 80 years before the start of the story, she's technically almost 100 years old. She's naturally unfamiliar with most of the advances in technology in the decades since her passing, especially, "Pee Cees" as she puts it. | |
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Celebrity Name Game: Bill Engvall drew a blank when asked to communicate the word "Snapchat" to a contestant; after the round, host Craig Ferguson had to explain that it was something "the kids" used. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Hus-keys," Molly coaches her elderly Aunt Merna through setting up a video chat. Merna keeps accidentally turning the camera off or hanging up entirely. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): "Something's a Ms." begins with the Mayor attempting to play a CD on a record player. | |
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The X-Files reboot uses this as a throwaway gag to emphasize that the characters are older and less in touch with the subject matter than they used to be. The series proper incorporated a lot of new tech into the show, including Mulder and Scully regularly using cell phones to communicate before that was common. In the reboot, Mulder has upgraded to a smart phone, but can't figure out how to take picture and video, and must now use glasses to read anything on it. Scully also admonishes his now constant access to the internet, as it fuels his conspiracy theories. | |
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Gangsta Granny: Neither Granny nor the Queen know what Googling is. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle thinks that Jade's laptop is a magic waffle iron and fails miserably when trying to sell his antiques online, destroying the laptop when he thinks it's been possessed by dark magic (due to his inabiliity to figure out how to use it.) | |
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Sakura Quest: One old man acquired a tablet PC, but due to not knowing how to use it, ended up using it as a light. It abruptly loses power in the middle of the conversation about it, possibly because he forgot to check the batteries. Another old man is a downplayed example, since he uses his tablet as a timer for his instant noodles. | |
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Inverted in The Strange Calls with Gregor, who in all appearances seems to be a white-haired old man, though he claims to be 47 is as obsessed with twitter as a stereotypical teenager and is constantly posting, much to the annoyance of everyone else. | |
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Granny Weatherwax in Equal Rites says she can't use a younger witch's crystal ball. This wouldn't normally count as even magical technology, except that she specifically refers to it as "that damn silicon stuff". | |
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Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018): Captain America (who grew up in the 1930s and 40s) struggles to find the app he needs on his smartphone. Luckily, Miles is there to help him out. | |
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In Arthur, Mr. Ratburn turns out to be less than confident when it comes to the Internet. However, the trope is quickly defied when the Brain shows him how to use it and he quickly becomes addicted (although not seriously) to web forums. An earlier installment depicts him as being clueless on the use of a BoysenBerry (BlackBerry Bland-Name Product) that he bought to replace his desktop computer, but eventually figuring out how to use it. | |
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In an Inside Amy Schumer sketch titled "Mom Computer Therapy" has the main character (portrayed by the 30 something year old Amy Schumer) trying to teach her mother (60 something year old Deborah Rush) how to use a new model of computer with a therapist to mediate, only to get more and more frustrated as her mother refuses to pay attention or listen to her, then the therapist (the late-middle aged Kathy Najimy) join in where Amy ends up foaming at the mouth as the therapist and the mother mess around with an intercom (that the therapist had plenty of time to use). | |
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In the The New Recruit series of one-shots, Steve Rogers has no idea what a video game is, and thus loses miserably when he and Matt Garretty play Halo. | |
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Lampirydae from Society of Virtue plays with this, on one hand he is a bonafide Gadgeteer Genius superhero and a flashback reveals he used to own an electronics business in his civilian identity, on the other hand his superscience skills are limited to the tech he used in his heyday and he's no good with technology invented later, his electronics store used to sell Zeerust Schizo Tech. | |
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In Not the Nine O'Clock News, Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith and Griff Jones feature in a skit in a hi-fi store, where an older man is mocked by the younger store assistants when he asks for a "gramophone". | |
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50/50 Heroes: When Mo is turned into a giant, nobody who doesn't already know his and Sam's secret notices because they're too focused on their cellphones. The only exception is Ms. Rose, an elderly lady described by Larry as being "unlikely to own a cellphone" but fortunately her eyesight wasn't good enough to keep her from mistaking Mo for a tree. | |
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The Breaker: New Waves is told about an app that he could use to find Shioon and Jini, so he has to ask a mook what an "app" is. | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: Aunt May says that she will look about social anxiety disorders on the web. Uncle Ben encourages her to do so, because that will keep her busy for hours. | |
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In Raven's Home, Chelsea doesn't understand how dating sites work. Her young son Levi has to do everything for her. Chelsea herself is under 50, but she's not into the technology. | |
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The Last Seidr: Inverted; Thor, Steve Rogers, and Harry Potter are all still fairly young (physically in Cap's case), yet none of them are overly familiar with tech used in the MCU. Harry only has a mild advantage over the other two in that he knows of technology from the early 1990s, but even then his knowledge is twenty years out of date. | |
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Agent 1 and Agent 2 in Splatoon mention that their grandfather, Cap'n Cuttlefish, doesn't own a phone. If they want to contact him, they need to telegraph him. He's gotten better by Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion, as he now has a cell phone and is able to use chat rooms, but he still grapples with the finer points, like turning off the caps lock and knowing how to sign out. | |
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flint's dad is absolutely hopeless with computers, which becomes a problem when he has to e-mail an important file to his son's phone at the climax of the movie. He accidentally sends the rapping kitten video from earlier instead. | |
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Den-noh Coil: Inverted with Mega-Baa, Yasako's grandmother and the Cool Old Lady who runs the local candy shop. She's well versed in the high tech glasses the kids wear, can hack the setting's version of the internet, and in general is one of the most tech-savvy characters around. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Web", not only Nicole, but the entire office staff of the Rainbow Factory have no idea how to work their computers. Darwin and Gumball conclude that all old people, no matter how powerful, suffer from the same issues. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light, Hirotaro starts off playing Final Fantasy XIV with no idea how to do anything. In time, however, he becomes a highly-skilled Bard. | |
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Joel Suzuki: In Ballad of the Bluerock, Joel tries to call his grandpa, but they have trouble hearing each other because his grandpa keeps holding the cell phone the wrong way. | |
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As the narrator of Eight Crazy Nights explains, Whitey is so far behind the times he thinks Viagra is a waterfall. He doesn't know what's going on when Davey flips him the bird and — not being up to date on modern technology — thinks Benjamin's Game Boy is an Etch-a-Sketch. | |
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Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has an NPC in the third game who mentions "Empty Trees" (MP3's) as part of a "kids these days" speech. | |
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Roger Fox of Foxtrot is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of The '70s, though in his case it could be this trope or his being just that stupid. In a comic strip that gleefully uses Comic-Book Time, it only gets worse (at one point he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, since there's a window right there in the computer room). In one strip, he sees Jason using the computer and starts waxing on about the Information Superhighway. He once pushed the computer off the desk because it said to back up the hard drive. With the spread of mobile phones, his incompetence now extends to mobile phones, such as spending thousands of dollars on a Pay To Win Allegedly Free Game (and still losing). |
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One submission to Dolan True Stories involves an old man calling tech support because the tax form software he was using wasn't working as he expected. The poor submitter spent three hours fruitlessly guiding him through every conceivable fix before it turned out that he'd been expecting the mouse to print directly onto the form itself. | |
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Connie and Walt of Zits tend to be pretty clueless, much to the perpetual embarrassment of their son Jeremy. In another strip, Walt diagnosed a problem with Jeremy's computer as "a loose fan belt on your search engine". In one strip, Connie claims that it's her parents' generation who really don't understand technology, which is Instantly Proven Wrong when Jeremy says "that's not what grandma said in her podcast". |
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Patriarch Rick Mitchell from The Mitchells vs. the Machines is very much hopeless with anything that is beyond a simple video camera. Simply subscribing to his daughter Katie's YouTube channel resulted in him hitting the computer in a hysteric panic and made him go to the Corner of Woe until he figured it out, and he later ended up sending her a friend request by mail with no other information asking if she wanted to be his friend. She doesn't miss the Unfortunate Implications of this. | |
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The Tom Smith song "Tech Support For Dad" is a lament about how the singer's tech-illiterate father keeps calling on him to solve all his computer problems. In one recording, the role of the dad was played by Tom Smith's actual father. | |
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In 3 Full Months of Vlogging COMPLETE! (90 Days in a Row!) :D by Matt Santoro, Matt sees an elderly couple, and decides to stop the vlog in case they don't know what he's doing. | |
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Pops up very briefly a few times in Up. Carl doesn't understand Russel's "GPM". During the credits, there is a picture of Russel trying to teach Carl how to use a computer, but Carl looks baffled while holding the mouse by the cord. | |
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At the beginning of one episode of CSI, an old lady smashed her car into the side of a coffee shop, killing both her and a skeezy health insurance agent that had ripped her off. The fingerprints lifted off the car mounted GPS unit didn't match those of the lady. They eventually came to the conclusion that she'd asked her grandson to set the destination for her, so she could find the cafe the agent frequented, and kill him. | |
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Henry of Forever is this in spades, although since he still looks 34, to most people he just comes across as eccentric. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.: In Tastes Like Chicken (written in 2017 and set 20 Minutes into the Future), when Alvina says she's on social media, Dan tries to imagine a "correct cool and modern" phrase and asks if she's on MySpace. | |
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Ignited Spark: Gran Torino got a smartphone from Hana as a Christmas gift, but broke it because it was too noisy. | |
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Jack O'Lantern: Sasuke is only in his thirties but he can't keep up with the world's rapidly changing technology. He doesn't know how to use smartphones or the internet well. | |
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DCI Nightingale from the Rivers of London books is a sterling example. A century old (looking younger due to Merlin Sickness), he's utterly at sea with the new computerized systems the police use, and relies entirely on Grant to get anything electronic done. It's possible that he's playing this up deliberately. Peter has mentioned several times if he is motivated Nightingale can become quite proficient with new technology quite quickly. It's just that most of the time, unless it's work-related (working an airwave digital radio) or directly related to his personal interests (following the rugby on Peter's TV in the "tech cave"), he simply feels no need to. | |
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Cranky Villagers in Animal Crossing (2001) will sometimes talk about email as if we were an alien concept. | |
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Granny Girl Hinata-chan: Played with in chapter 8. Hinata is a six year-old girl but, due to retaining Past-Life Memories, has the personality, mannerisms, and, importantly for this trope, tech-savvy of the eighty-eight year-old woman she ended her last life as. When her brother takes her into the city to see a movie, she has trouble with all the different high tech devices she encounters. She runs into a door that requires a keycard, thanks the motion sensor using escalator assuming there's an operator somewhere, freaks out when encountering a toilet with automated features as well as during a 3D movie. Her brother doesn't think anything unusual about any of this, being both used to Hinata's eccentricities and because he assumes, not incorrectly, that she's seeing all these things for the first time. | |
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Goodtime Valley in Hypnospace Outlaw. The zone for older Hypnospace users, its pages are rife with bugs, grammatical errors, poorly applied templates, occasional viruses, and tackiness above and beyond the GeoCities-influenced aesthetic of Hypnospace in general. Averted by one user, Connie Turner, an older computer security professional whose site is clean and well-presented, and who breaks into the website of hacker group M1nx when they fail to hide their tracks properly. | |
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Crops up twice in Coco: While trying to pass himself off as Frida Kahlo to the bridge guards, Héctor refers to the scanner as a "blinky-thingy". Mamá Imelda is introduced bashing a worker's computer with her boot and calling it a "Devil Box". |
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In Violent Night: Santa, being over eleven hundred years old, only vaguely knows how to use a gun and gets in trouble when he doesn't realize the assault rifle he stole still has the safety on. In the climax, he specifically lets someone else use a mercenary's stolen rifle as a result. | |
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La Femme et le TGV: Elise is a widow, aged 70-ish. She wants to know how to contact Bruno, her pen pal who is a railway engineer. She calls customer service at the railway, and when the woman suggests that she look on the internet, Elise says "I've never sent an internet and I never will!" | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Boyz Crazy", Dipper and his Great-Uncle Stan think that Robbie is brainwashing Wendy with his music, so they take his CD and try to listen to it slowed down. Stan mistakes it for a vinyl record, and puts it into a record player. In "Little Dipper" Gideon abducts a miniaturized Dipper and Mabel, then calls Stan for ransom. Stan doesn't believe him. Stan's twin brother Ford also has some trouble with modern technology (despite being a Mad Scientist with access to stuff years ahead of most people), although he at least has the excuse of spending thirty years in Another Dimension and missing out on a lot of advancements. He thinks floppy disks are still cutting edge, and scoffs at the idea of a "personal computer". |
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