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accidentallfacttoday at 8:24 AM1 replyview on HN

'Steampunk' means no electricity. You need to come up with another term. Analogpunk, maybe?


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WorldMakertoday at 4:40 PM

"Dieselpunk" is sometimes considered the next door neighbor term for WW1 through early 1950's retrofuturism with electricity and radios/very early televisions.

Sometimes people use "Steampunk" for shorthand for both because there are some overlaps in either direction, especially if you are trying for "just" pre-WWI retrofuture. Though I think the above poster was maybe especially trying to highlight the sort of pre-WWI overlap with Steampunk with more electricity but not yet as many cars and "diesel".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk