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* In [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Batman Returns]]'', a big deal is made about the Batmobile having an on-board CD recorder. At the time, this seemed incredibly futuristic; now, after the rise of flash memory storage for music, it seems more pointless than anything else. Imagine the kind of Bat-Suspension the laser would [[Required Secondary Powers|need]].
* ''[[Hackers]]'', made in 1995, has many examples. First and foremost is that the main storage media is 3.5" floppies. While Dade is fiddling with Kate's brand-new laptop, she mentions that it has an internal 28.8 kbps modem (an impressive amount at the time; for an internal modem, doubly so). The tech-savvy team of hackers mostly have pagers rather than cell phones. And also, the trick of using recorded tones to spoof pay phones into accessing pay-to-call numbers was obsolete even when the movie came out.
* In the first ''[[Wayne's World]]'', Wayne puts a CD in his dashboard CD player and Cassandra asks him when he got a CD player. He responds "With the money!" (that he had gotten from selling the rights to his cable access show). Portable CD players then were still pricey and status
* In the 1990 film ''[[Taking Care of Business]]'', Jim Belushi plays an escaped prisoner. At one point, in a bid to flatter some guy, he acts all impressed by the guy's IBM PC, specifically mentioning, in awestruck terms, its "''20-megabyte'' hard drive".
* ''[[Spaceballs]]'': Lord Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz discuss on a way to track down the heroes with instant VHS technology. Granted the film was done in 1987 and takes place in the future, but with VHS technology being discounted in 2006 and with instant video on demand sites like Hulu becoming the norm… it seems ridiculous.
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