History PlayingWith / LongRunnerTechMarchesOn

** The show, either [[CriticalResearchFailure by mistake]] or [[NecessaryWeasel out of necessity]], shows Alice using something that wasn't invented yet in 1997 in a late-season episode anyway.

* '''Parodied''': Later seasons characterize Alice as a DiscoDan.

* '''Subverted''': Alice has a cellphone in Season 9, but it's neither [[TheNewTens a smartphone]] nor a [[TheNineties brick phone]]; it's a small flip-phone with little or no ability to access the Internet, more like something from the TurnOfTheMillennium.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[IProduct iFroot]], including Music/LadyGaga, Music/JustinBieber, and Music/KatyPerry. (Or any {{Expies}} thereof.)
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': It breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. As a result, the series may enter SeasonalRot, an AudienceAlienatingEra or JumpTheShark altogether.

** FadSuper, WereStillRelevantDammit, VerySpecialEpisode, TwoDecadesBehind.

* '''Deconstructed''': It breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief; it comes across as WereStillRelevantDammit and/or TotallyRadical. As a result, the series may enter a DorkAge or JumpTheShark altogether.

* '''Enforced''': FadSuper, WereStillRelevantDammit, VerySpecialEpisode, TwoDecadesBehind.

** The series is or involves SpeculativeFiction about teen life in the future [[SocietyMarchesOn (drawing on experience from the era in which the series is written)]]

* '''Enforced''': FadSuper, WereStillRelevantDammit, VerySpecialEpisode.

* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[IProduct iFroot]], including Music/LadyGaga, Music/JustinBieber, and KatyPerry. (Or any {{Expies}} thereof.)

* '''Straight''': [[TeenDrama ''Teenz'']] begins in TheNineties, with [[TheProtagonist Alice]] playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend and irritating her father (who wants to get online and check his email.) Several seasons later, Alice is playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend on a smartphone, and her father has tabs open on his browser for his email, a Viral Video on [[Website/YouTube ViewTube]], and [[{{Facebook}} FaceSpace]] all at the same time, even though it's [[TwoDecadesBehind still the nineties]].

* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[IProduct iFroot]], including LadyGaga, Music/JustinBieber, and KatyPerry. (Or any {{Expies}} thereof.)

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Straight''': [[TeenDrama ''Teenz'']] begins in TheNineties, with [[TheProtagonist Alice]] playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend and irritating her father (who wants to get online and check his email.) Several seasons later, Alice is playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend on a smartphone, and her father has tabs open on his browser for his email, a Viral Video on [[Website/YouTube ViewTube]], and [[{{Facebook}} FaceSpace]] all at the same time, even though it's [[StillTheEighties still the nineties]].

** While filming, the technology of TheNineties became more and more obsolete every ''hour''. As time went on it was much easier to find a newer {{Apple}} computer and set that up than it was to find an older model that ran the same Mac OS that Alice probably would have ''actually'' used at school that still worked.

* '''Basic Trope''': A LongRunner series starts out with fashion and technology of the time period in which it began broadcast, and later seasons feature more current technology and fashion even though it's supposedly still the original time period.
* '''Played Straight''': [[TeenDrama ''Teenz'']] begins in TheNineties, with [[TheProtagonist Alice]] playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend and irritating her father (who wants to get online and check his email.) Several seasons later, Alice is playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend on a smartphone, and her father has tabs open on his browser for his email, a ViralVideo on [[Website/YouTube ViewTube]], and [[{{Facebook}} FaceSpace]] all at the same time, even though it's [[StillTheEighties still the nineties]].

* '''Justified''': TechnologyMarchesOn

* '''Deconstructed''': It breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief; it comes across as WereStillRelevantDammit and/or TotallyRadical. As a result, the series may enter a DorkAge or JumpTheShark altogether.
* '''Reconstructed''': The series keeps to technology appropriate to the era it's set in.
* '''Parodied''':

* '''Averted''': See "Reconstructed"
** The series does not run on ComicBookTime
* '''Enforced''': FadSuper, WereStillRelevantDammit, VerySpecialEpisode

* '''Played For Drama''': It's part of a VerySpecialEpisode.

* '''Played Straight''': [[TeenDrama ''Teenz'']] begins in TheNineties, with [[TheProtagonist Alice]] playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend and irritating her father (who wants to get online and check his email.) Several seasons later, Alice is playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend on a smartphone, and her father has tabs open on his browser for his email, a ViralVideo on [[YouTube ViewTube]], and [[{{Facebook}} FaceSpace]] all at the same time, even though it's [[StillTheEighties still the nineties]].

** The new series is a sequel or SpinOff that takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture from the original series.

* '''Subverted''': Alice has a cellphone in Season 9, but it's neither [[TheNewTens a smartphone]] nor a [[TheNineties brick phone]]; it's a small flip-phone with little or no ability to access the Internet, more like something from the TurnOfTheMillennium.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[{{iProduct}} iFroot]], including LadyGaga, JustinBieber, and KatyPerry. (Or any {{Expies}} thereof.)
* '''Deconstructed''': It breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief; it comes across as WereStillRelevantDammit and/or TotallyRadical. As a result, the series may enter a DorkAge or JumpTheShark altogether.
* '''Reconstructed''': The series keeps to technology appropriate to the era it's set in.
* '''Parodied''':

* '''Defied''': Alice gets a new computer...for that time period.

* '''Conversed''': "How is Alice using an [[{{iProduct}} iComp]] in TheNineties? iComps weren't even invented yet!"
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's dad is [[RunningGag kvetching]] about setting the DVR after kvetching about programming the VCR.
* '''Played For Drama''': It's part of a VerySpecialEpisode.

* '''Conversed''': "How is Alice using an [[{{iProduct iComp]] in TheNineties? iComps weren't even invented yet!"

* '''Subverted''': Alice has a cellphone in Season 9, but it's neither [[TheNewTens a smartphone]] nor a [[TheNineties brick phone]]; it's a small flip-phone with little or no ability to access the Internet, more like something from the TurnOfTheMillenium.

* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[{{iProduct}} iFruit]], including LadyGaga, JustinBieber, and KatyPerry. (Or any {{Expies}} thereof.)

* '''Subverted''': Alice has a cellphone in Season 9, but it's neither [[TheNewTens a smartphone]] nor a [[TheNineties brick phone]]; it's a small flip-phone with little or no ability to access the Internet, more like something from TheTurnOfTheMillenium.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she listens to music on an [[{{iProduct}} iFruit]].