So called dieselpunk

[Wells45]

I agree about Sky Captain. I don't know where they found the footage but that was a real class act to include Sir Lawrence the way they did.

[patron_vectras]

 The thing about post-apocalyptic movies made around the end of the Cold War is that they are the farthest reaches of primal Dieselpunk (long before it was called that). Many stories have internal-combustion engines as the primary powerplant because all other, more sophisticated, forms were made unattainable or wiped out and forgotten. The apocalyptic catastrophe was invariably of a case well within Dieselpunk boundaries- nuclear destruction, aliens, bioterror, etc...

 Cyberpunk had only been explored in literature then, but it was on the tip of the popular tongue.

 Once people got over the rubber and smokes black dusters and dark sunglasses were not far off. Computers made it into popular fiction.

[Flynn MacCallister]

I suppose Steampunk in the purest sense is a good label for those of us rooted firmly in the reign of the late Queen, God bless her, but not on the mainstream timeline*. But if anyone really has to label me, I suppose I would be more anachropunk (not that you'd know it to look at me).

*and that's another thing altogether; why do we still refer to time-lines when the reality seems to be closer to a time-funnel-shaped-cloud?

Presumably because things follow worldlines (geodetic or otherwise), not world-funnel-shaped-clouds.