History Main / Retraux

* ''Webcomic/ZombieAndMummy'' is designed as a homage to late-nineties Website/GeoCities-style web design, with animated gifs and MIDI music abounding. The author, Olia Lialina, has a soft spot for old Internet culture in general, and has written [[http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/ articles]] about it, in addition to a [[http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ blog about Geocities.]]

* For AprilFoolsDay 2011, Website/YouTube added a button that would turn the video you're watching into sepia tones, add jittering and scan lines, and replace the audio with jazz music. Its featured video that day was of a few of its most famous videos redone in this style. Even more brilliantly: if you were watching a video that used [=YouTube's=] subtitle functionality, the text would appear as intertitles as in a silent film.

* Website/YouTube channel ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvtp7mH0Cdq8FQUxcjDq0Q My Life in Gaming]]'' offers occasional "How to Beat" videos for contemporary video games done in the style of old game tips VHS tapes. In addition to using dated video effects and deliberately making the image look like VHS video (complete with tracking errors), the narration will make deliberate mistakes in incidents both minor (such as mispronouncing in-game terms) and major (as seen in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEO8XWeO5c Super Mario 3D World video]] that claims the game to be a set in [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 SubCon]]).

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' intentionally uses a drawing style and character design reminiscent of anime from the 1970s, despite being made in 1998. One UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} release for the show also has the [=DVDs=] looking like [=LPs=]; the DVD covers emulated packaging for jazz albums of the 1950s with a single dominant color on the front and a text-heavy back cover. So do the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc [[http://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=Cowboy+Bebop&sort=title&format=ld releases.]]

* When Creator/StudioGhibli released ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' on UsefulNotes/BluRay, they added PostProcessingVideoEffects to simulate film grain, gate weave, and a slight softness to replicate the look of analogue 35mm film and vintage cel animation while working with digital ink and paint. Studio Ghibli's previous all-digital films (starting with ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'') had this filter retroactively applied for the UsefulNotes/BluRay remasters to simulate how the films looked when they were originally released in cinemas via. 35mm prints. All future films from Studio Ghibli (and successor Creator/StudioPonoc) would later have this filter on home video releases and digital theatrical prints[[note]]The rare 35mm theatrical prints have not been digitally filtered, however, as the process of printing the digital files to 35mm film already renders the filter effects unnecessary and even detrimental to the quality of the prints.[[/note]], even in the AllCGICartoon ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch''.

* It's not unknown for a flashback or "never before told" story to be drawn in the style of a certain time period. An excellent example is ''ComicBook/AgeOfTheSentry'' miniseries, whose [[ComicBook/TheSentry titular hero]] was supposedly Marvel's Franchise/{{Superman}} {{Expy}} in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s Creator/JackKirby and 1980s Creator/FrankMiller. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.
* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' by Brian Michael Bendis features a flashback to Jessica Jones attending the same school as Spider-Man, drawn in a style reminiscent of Steve Ditko era Spider-Man. Jessica's early superhero days as Jewel get [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks '80s-like artwork]] in addition to old school credits ("Bashful Brian Bendis", "Magnificent Mike Gaydos", "Marvelous Mark Bagley").

** "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder" by Creator/JohnByrne is drawn in the style of a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Franchise/{{Batman}} comic and is written accordingly as well. Batman and Robin smile throughout the story, deliver wisecracks and best the villains via a clever scheme.
** "Urban Renewal" features some nostalgic flashbacks by characters to the "old days", and the flashbacks are drawn in UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}} style as opposed to the more realistic present-day scenes.

** ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' vol 5 #7 (from the Duggan and Posehn run) is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, crossing Deadpool (who, of course, didn't exist at the time to ''write'' inventory stories about) into the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with 70s Spidey and the Power Pack also making appearances. The art and writing style both reflect this, and it even has oversaturated [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] colouring. Later issues in that run follow on from this, having Deadpool show up in what are claimed to be inventory stories from other eras, with the writing and art in the style of those periods. Including one from Deadpool's [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks actual early days]], with a Creator/RobLiefeld in-joke as the characters have everything possible hiding their feet.

* Another one from Creator/AlanMoore, ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' has flashbacks with an art style that corresponds with the time those flashbacks happened. This is justified in-story; from Supreme's perspective, his recollections of (for example) [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] events have such a simple, rough style to them because it was such a long time ago and everything seemed so simple back then.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Bugbo}}'' uses the art style of early UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animations from TheNoughties. Each episode even shows a cursor clicking a Play button on a title screen, much like the title screens of old Platform/{{Newgrounds}} videos.

* ''WebAnimation/LaceyGames'' A DisguisedHorrorStory series which draw heavy influence from mid-2000s girl-oriented [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash flash games]], including the art style and typical gameplay.

* [[http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/rb-vol1.jpg Issue 1]] of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' appears as if it had been printed during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.

** Evidence in ''Jet Dream'' letter columns and other material suggests that the publisher believed in mass-scale [[WholesomeCrossdresser wholesome crossdressing]] by boys to prepare for humanity's future as a OneGenderRace. The wholesome, hoped-to-be [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Code approved]] Jet Dream comics were only one of his business ventures aimed at cashing in on a "Fem Is In!" movement that... never quite developed.