• entwine413@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    93
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    You could also write a story about a cowboy and samurai drinking Coke and playing Nintendo (cards), and it would be historically accurate.

      • underline960@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        25
        ·
        2 months ago

        If they had fax machines in Star Wars, it would still be period accurate.

        I still don’t understand how fax hasn’t died yet.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        What’s wild to me is that devices capable of measuring the length of something to an accuracy of one millionth of an inch existed decades before the American Civil War.