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In this interpretation, the OS-tan universe doesn't take place in the real world, but a fantasy cyberpunk world that may be partly based off of it. Real people usually don't appear, and the OS-tanverse is comprised of solely of the OS-tans at the top of the hierarchy, with hardware-tans, program-tans and file-tans at their service. There is no map of this fictional world, but each faction (except for the CIOST and wanderers who live around the world) has its own territory, led by an OS dynasty. | In this interpretation, the OS-tan universe doesn't take place in the real world, but a fantasy cyberpunk world that may be partly based off of it. Real people usually don't appear, and the OS-tanverse is comprised of solely of the OS-tans at the top of the hierarchy, with hardware-tans, program-tans and file-tans at their service. There is no map of this fictional world, but each faction (except for the CIOST and wanderers who live around the world) has its own territory, led by an OS dynasty. | ||
Since this was for some time the most popular interpretation, it set up the guideline that older OS or computer-tans usually wear older fashions, and may have more antiquated mindsets. Even in canon, there are some traces of this, with [[Windows 95|95-tan]] wearing a kimono, which was common college attire for women in the Meiji era of Japan, and [[Windows 3.1|3.1-tan]] wears western-style attire of the same time frame. There is a lot of flexibility to this guideline, such as the late 70's and early 80's home computer-tans wearing different time periods of fashion, but are more old-fashioned than 3.1 and 95. There are also some exceptions, in canon, there is [[MSDOS|MS-DOS-tan's]] modern schoolgirl attire. | |||
A middle-ground interpretation between the Annex Project interpretation and real-world-based interpretations is that the great number of anachronisms, of technology and fashion are explained by stylistic choices of individual OS-tan cultures. | |||
This used to be the main theory used in OS-tan expanded universe works, but is now second to the real-world based theory. However, the two aren't necessarily incompatible. | This used to be the main theory used in OS-tan expanded universe works, but is now second to the real-world based theory. However, the two aren't necessarily incompatible. | ||
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This theory, which has gained a lot more favor in the western fanon, involves real users and real locations in what looks like the real world with some futuristic cyberpunk elements. The inclusion of real people of the companies who created the computer systems serves as a way to neatly resolve the origins of the OS-tans in-universe as having been artificially created. | This theory, which has gained a lot more favor in the western fanon, involves real users and real locations in what looks like the real world with some futuristic cyberpunk elements. The inclusion of real people of the companies who created the computer systems serves as a way to neatly resolve the origins of the OS-tans in-universe as having been artificially created. | ||
===Settings proposed in OS-tan literature=== | ===Settings proposed in OS-tan literature=== | ||