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The Web Always Existed
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You travel back in time to The Middle Ages or Hollywood Prehistory, turn on your Time Machine's computer and... there's Google! Apparently the Web has always been there... humans just discovered how to access it in the early 1990s. This phenomenon results from filmmakers wanting to have their time-traveler show off the World Wide Boomstick without letting logic get in the way. However, anyone with a passing understanding of technology will realize that this implies the Web was always floating out there and that people just needed the right equipment to access it. (Which, we grant you, is a pretty nifty idea for a story gimmick, but this trope more often occurs because the writers just weren't paying attention.) Another variation occurs if a time-traveler brings a TV or radio back in time and it plays current shows rather than the ones that existed back then. In fact, this trope refers to pretty much any instance where a technology that clearly relies on outside input to function is placed in a situation, usually through Time Travel, where that input could not possibly exist and it functions anyway. This could technically happen in real life, assuming time travel is possible. However, it would require the machine's owner to not clear its history and all the files downloaded from the website in question. The computer obviously would not be able to get to anywhere on the Internet it had not stored. And of course it would require a source of electricity, if you go back far enough. Alternately, if communications between the two times are available, you could theoretically route the Internet through such a link - the computer in the past would call a computer in the present and ask for the page, and the computer in the present would deliver it back. The lag would probably suck, though. But with the advent of really big hard drive spaces (A few terabytes would be sufficient to get a good portion of The Other Wiki, for starters), one could conceivably download big, giant portions of the internet that is relevant and bring it back through time for later access. Of course, you must be pretty darn Crazy-Prepared if you actually do this in the first place. (Of course, the Doctor could make a cell phone call through time, so theoretically...) Contrast Sudden Lack of Signal, in which technology logically fails to work in a different time or world, and Super Cell Reception, in which technology works implausibly well in unusual circumstances. |
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A significant part of the Magic 2.0 series. Because of the nature of the main characters' powers, they are able to ensure their technology works as intended in any time period. Cell phones and computers can still access the internet and track locations without a problem. | |
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South Park: The Fractured but Whole: Double Subverted. When traveling back in time, you get a message stating that you can't use Coonstagram because it hasn't been invented yet, but later, after going even further back in time, you get to a point where you take selfies with three people, who instantly proceed to follow you on Coonstagram. This is either a Plot Hole or Gameplay and Story Segregation. It is difficult to tell which since the world of South Park runs largely on the Rule of Funny. | |
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Implied vaguely throughout Digimon. Outright stated in Digimon Fusion, but it isn't certain if this confirms it for any of the other Digimon installments. |
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The Simpsons: Inverted; when Lisa sets up Grandpa's old radio in the living room and turns it on, it plays the Glenn Miller Orchestra and FDR's "infamy" speech. | |
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Done deliberately on Fringe with the mysterious Numbers Stations. It is mentioned that when Marconi first activated his radio they were already transmitting. | |
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There are a few Horrible Histories sketches in which historical events such as the Louisiana Purchase are reimagined as happening online. | |
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Possibly the most spectacular example occurs in the Old World of Darkness setting's Mage: The Ascension game. A Technocrat faction of Magi called the Virtual Adepts discovered that the lowest levels of the Internet accidentally connected to a part of the spirit-world called the Digital Web, allowing skilled hackers to manipulate reality by sending data through the Internet. Note that within the setting, the Virtual Adepts manage this trope twice, as on top of discovering that the internet had its own spirit-world and so had always existed, they had in fact already invented a primitive text-only internet (roughly equivalent to Usenet) back in the 19th century. And as an aspect of the setting was that the internet as the mundanes experience it has always been a considerably backwards version compared to the version of the internet used by the VA, then if a mundane went back in time to WW1 or WW2 with the right equipment they might have full access to an equivalent of TV Tropes. Or their equipment would explode from Paradox. Or it wouldn't work. We don't recommend you test it. |
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According to Heroes, the internet has not only always existed, but is sentient. | |
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Inverted in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where the telephone never works, except when the apartment containing it is in another place or time. Of course, the person at the other end is always in the "present" that the apartment left. Also, when the phone is finally repaired, the time machine stops working. | |
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The premise of the historical tv skit series History Bites is "What if Television had been around for the past 5000 years?", and gleefully mixed historical information with modern pop culture, such as Martha Stewart's advice on how to use pot-pourri to mask the smell of plague victims. | |
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mezzacotta has apparently been going for over ten million-million years note Not really, it's just randomly-generated enough pages to look like it has. | |
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Subverted on Supernatural with both cell phones and the Web. | |
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In one The Perishers strip, Wellington had a really, really old radio — on which he somehow picked up a news bulletin about the Titanic. | |
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Homestuck: Inverted. The entire planet is destroyed by meteors, the homes of the SBURB/SGRUB players are transported into the game itself, and yet the Internet still works fine. | |
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DuckTales (1987): In the episode where Bubba the Caveduck has his debut, Huey, Dewey and Louie introduce him to rock'n'roll. By bringing a radio into the stone age. | |
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Somewhat averted in the Axis of Time series by John Birmingham. Computers on the task force of warships from 20 Minutes into the Future that arrives in 1942 are limited to whatever websites were stored in their local cache memories. Which, however, is pretty much anything the plot demands. Leading to a scene where Stalin berates his subordinates because they're citing "old Wikipedia articles" when he wants up-to-date information. They are able to use futuristic tablets to send and receive messages. However, this is because they don't rely on an outside network and instead rely on Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything. |
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Played dead straight in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Not only is Bentley able to access the internet on his computer no matter how far back in time the gang goes, but much like Dr. Who, the Grizz, who has traveled back to 10000 B.C, is able to talk to le Paradox back in the present using a cell phone. Likewise, Dimitri, back in the present, is able to contact the gang no matter how far back they go. | |
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Parodied in The Young Ones when the house travels back in time to the Middle Ages and the TV is showing Jester Balowski's Medieval Torture Hour. | |
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Averted in Journeyman, where the main character's cell phone refuses to work in the past. Instead, he finds his old phone from The '80s. | |
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Played with in The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. Josh and Emma are friends who load AOL onto their computers in 1996 and lo and behold, Facebook is their homepage. | |
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Played straight in comedy sketch show Armstrong and Miller. A random guy goes back in time to meet a famous inventor and gives a spiel about the enlightened future, only when the scientist starts asking questions (such as "how do these radio waves work?") he realises he doesn't know the answer. Cue "What sort of a future is this?", so he pops back to the future, brings back a laptop and shows the inventor some porn. Answer: a good one. | |
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In the Xenosaga series, the futuristic internet (the Unus Mundus Network) had always existed but could not be accessed until a network was layered onto it. The Unus Mundus ("one world") Network is some sort of hyperspace/collective unconscious/something network that's always existed, but they hadn't started using it for FTL web browsing until relatively recently. There's no implication that you could go back in time to see data from the future. It is also God and represents the theory of a universal collective unconsciousness. | |
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In a remarkable pre-Internet example (at least what seems to be an example of this trope), in the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever", Spock, using what he even refers to as "stone knives and bearskins", is able to access newspaper clips and VIDEO (well, film footage) of two different histories (which are futures from 1930) with his tricorder! That was actually a "recorded cache" example — Spock explains that the information is in his tricorder scans of the Guardian of Forever (taken before and after Bones went back and changed history), but he needs additional computer equipment to find which particular images are the crucial ones. |
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Suggested in The Smurfs 2 that the Web existed as far back as medieval Europe, with Social Smurf talking about a social network called Smurfbook. | |
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Lampshaded in Hetalia: Axis Powers when America takes out his laptop to check Google Maps... in 1942. | |
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Similarly, agents from The Ministry of Time can navigate the web while they are in the past because they have phones which can dial (and presumably start a data connection) with any date in the future, so they can tether the phones and create an access point for their laptops. | |
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Liberty's Kids: Some versions include short news reports — television news reports — delivered by Benjamin Franklin (voiced by Walter Cronkite) as a Framing Device. | |
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Inverted on Eerie, Indiana—one of the weird things the main character collected over the course of that series was an old-fashioned radio that only played music from the 1940s. | |
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Lampshaded in Enchanted. Shortly after Nancy goes to Andalasia, she gets a call on her cell phone. She says, "Rather good reception here," then throws it away. | |
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The Way of the Metagamer: The iPhone works perfectly within the Medieval world of Dungeons & Dragons. | |
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The protagonist of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fic Through the Eyes of Another Pony discovers that his smartphone still has internet access in another world, completely inexplicably. To the author's credit, at least it's not just there solely for coolness; the Internet access is used to jump-start a plot peripety, and then disappears. | |
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Doctor Who: It's standard for companions in the New Series to get cellphones with "universal roaming", so they can make phone calls — and, less often, search the web — wherever they are in time and space. It's explicitly the case that this connects (presumably via the TARDIS) to their own time period — although Word of God is that the first time the Doctor did it (in "The End of the World") he messed it up, and Rose actually called Jackie the day before she left. And in Series 11, the Doctor even mentions lending one to Elvis, which becomes a plot point in the short story "That's All Right, Mama" by Paul Magrs. | |
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The "mirror net" in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf is basically the medieval Europe fantasy version of the Internet using magic mirrors. In "Smurfette's Inner Beauty", Hogatha uses a social network called Magebook in order to find a date. | |
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Terry Jones & Michael Palin's pre-Monty Python's Flying Circus show The Complete and Utter History of Britain posited a world where then-modern TV broadcasts were made of all of history's greatest events, and how that might have played out — such as Henry V's post-Battle of Hastings in the locker room talking like it was a cricket match. | |
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Inverted in a "Crocodile" Dundee film when the protagonist was shown a modern TV in a hotel room, he remarks that he remembers seeing a TV once a long time ago, turns it on, and... an I Love Lucy repeat comes on. "Yeah, that's about how I remember it." | |
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Outright stated in Digimon Fusion, but it isn't certain if this confirms it for any of the other Digimon installments. | |
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Averted in Dragon Ball. Future Trunks remarks that the GPS in his watch is not functioning properly because the satellites it is supposed to rely on have not been built yet. However, he can make it work on an older type of satellite. | |
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No Game No Life: whatever is keeping Sora and Shiro in Disboard is also powering their technology - they never have to charge their smartphone or tablet. It's implied that whatever gave the Old Gods their divinity is technological in nature, so that makes sense. The novels actually clarify the situation. Among the assorted tablets and portable gaming devices Sora and Shiro have when they come to Disboard is at least one solar charger, kept in case of extended power outages. |
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In the MegaMan NT Warrior manga, Lan and Megaman.EXE discover an ancient ruin on the internet that belongs to a civilization that existed upwards of thirty thousand years prior to the story, maintained by a being called Pharaohman; keep in mind that it takes place somewhere in 20XX. | |
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In The Company Novels, the eponymous Company maintains operatives at most periods of human history and allows them considerable leeway and cheap comforts (albeit because their nominal administrators lack the subjective time or understanding to know most of what the operatives are doing). As a result, communication technologies such as radio and broadcast TV tend to be widely used throughout human history right up to the point where they get invented and regular people could start noticing them, and the broadcasters have eclectic tastes. No Internet (no need), but any outside time-travelers who brought a radio or TV along would likely be picking up modern programs for any definition of "modern". | |
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Phil of the Future once featured a gadget called the Giggle which was said to have made the Internet obsolete. It recorded all known knowledge and was constantly updating, knowing everything up to the year Phil came from, 2121. Phil and Keely use the Giggle to look into Keely's future. At first it shows Keely with a successful career as a news reporter, but after failing a test and getting her AV lab privileges suspended, the Giggle shows a Bad Future. It reverts back to news reporter after Phil helps Keely pass another test and regain her privileges. | |
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The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds also uses cellphone-signal-in-Equestria as a plot point, as it turns out that radio signals are capable of passing through the Rainbow Bridge from G1, which Twilight and Rainbow Dash accidentally reopened in Chapter 1. (LongStory.) It turns out that this works both ways, and people in Kentucky can now pick up Equestrian local radio, throwing a large wrench into Megan's plan to make the general public aware of the fact she has a doorway to Another Dimension in her backyard in a somewhat controlled manner. | |
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Leading to a scene where Stalin berates his subordinates because they're citing "old Wikipedia articles" when he wants up-to-date information. | |
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