post_apocalypse_story/notes/setting.txt

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At one point, this was my idea for a setting. I don't like all aspects of it
so this is subject to change where it hasn't already. I might update this
to reflect the current setting when I have real information to fill in.
- post apocalypse scenario
- relatively slow, gradual downfall of civilization - not a fast
wipe out event
- ppl had time to prepare
- humanity discovers a new, safe alternative to asbestos in the 1970s
- problem with it: one of the precursor chemicals is way worse than
asbestos itself but its fibers decay within a couple years
- an industrial accident in the late 80s causes an ongoing unstoppable
reaction producing this material
- attempts to contain it fail and the atmosphere gets contaminated
- the reaction continues producing the material for at least a decade,
possibly even into the early 2000s
- most places are completely unsafe to inhabit by 1995
- Earth's surface is uninhabitable for decades to come due to the sheer
amount of fibers that got released into the atmosphere
- story takes place roughly 110 years after the apocalypse
- story starts on Tue, 2106-06-01
- just enough time for no living memory of the "old world" to survive
- slight retro-futurism
- for the most part, technology is stuck in the 80s or 90s, but there
are some key differences
- the underground city has only electric cars
- successful cryogenic preservation
- computing is different
- home computers are rare - they are similar to early to mid 90s
machines but have big boy 8" floppy drives
- business computers are mostly minicomputers or larger
- they are actually being used for all sorts of tasks like ordering
supplies or to check inventory etc
- computing is dominated by a UNIX-like operating system (INUX lol)