Steampunk timeline

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While scrolling through the twitterverse this came to my attention. It's yet another attempt to explain steampunk. This time from a less practical perspective. The author definitely if having fun playing with his words in this one.

The Great Steampunk Timeline

Stephen Hunt

Here’s how you understand steampunk, how you really understand steampunk.

It’s a reaction, and like all reactions, for its boiler to begin burning, steampunk needed something to react against.

Let’s skip back to the 1960s and 1970s. There was peace, and love. Everything was groovy, baby. Where there was war, it could be protested; where there were bayonets on campus, flowers could be hung from that sharp steel. Even if you weren’t there, kids, you kind of were–it was Mad Men, it was Swingtown, it was Life on Mars, and it was Forrest Gump, baby. READ THE REST HERE

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