Basic Trope: The Web can still be accessed no matter where characters time-travel.
- Straight: Bob is able to access Google even after going to the medieval era.
- Exaggerated: Bob can still access Google even before the Big Bang.
- Downplayed: Bob goes to the year 1989 and can access Google.
- Justified:
- The computer has a way of going through the time continuum so it can connect.
- Bob's time machine has wi-fi.
- Inverted: Bob can only access websites from the past or the future while in the present.
- Bob can not only post on website still around from 1989 but can post /in/ 1989.
- Subverted:
- The browser was just showing a cached copy.
- Bob specifically has a copy of the various servers and is running them on his machine and specifically set up a local DNS. He did this so that he could reach the local server copies like he expected.
- 1989 by what calendar?
- Double Subverted: Bob refreshes the page after clearing the cache and Google still shows up.
- Parodied: Bob gets ridiculous news feeds about new time-travel technology.
- Zig Zagged: Bob keeps getting errors and opening cached copies before opening up an up-to-date version of the website, despite being in a time before the internet.
- Averted: Bob can only use the Internet if he travels to a time after it was invented.
- Enforced: The producer wants to have Bob able to look things up to stay safe in the past.
- Lampshaded: "Wow! I can even access Google in the 17th century!"
- Invoked: Bob upgrades his computer to be able to connect through the time continuum.
- Exploited: Bob posts information about previously unknown things.
- Defied: Bob tries to make sure he only gets a connection after 1990.
- Discussed: "How is the computer able to access Google? It didn't exist in this time period!"
- Conversed: "That guy on that show must have very advanced technology to be able to access the Internet from any time period!"
- Implied: Bob is able to access information much more quickly than should be possible with medieval technology.
- Deconstructed: When medieval people gain access to Bob's computer, he ends up changing the course of history for the worse.
- Reconstructed: Bob is very careful to not use the internet in view of the locals.
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