Forum:I do not understand the timelines

i love fallout and have been playing it for years, but have never quite understood why everything is based in the 50's when the great war was sometime in 2077 please help..

The Fallout universe is based on what Americans in the 1950's thought the future would be like. AVeryNaughtyMan 13:00, August 6, 2011 (UTC)

yeah but surely as they moved into theo 21st century fasion sense and interiour design would have changed? thanks
 * Basically in the Fallout setting, when it comes to culture, fashion, social values and such, the 1950's "lasted" around the equivalent of 120~130 years instead of 10 years. While technology evolved following what science fiction works of the late 30's to 50's thought of how it would evolve using Vacuum tubes and atomic energy. Dr. Lobotomy 19:02, August 6, 2011 (UTC)

I have move the discussion in the good forum =). Itachou [~talk~] 19:29, August 6, 2011 (UTC)