Retro Future Archive
        
        
        
            
                This is an archive of records of dates and time of incidents and events from science fiction literatures and films.
                The numbers indicate the amount of time that has been passed between the event and the present day. This is an archive of predictions of people from the past.
                
            
        
        
        
            
            
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                                A Victorian English inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, succeed at creating a time machine. 
H.G.Wells / Published: 1895
                            
                         
                     
                 
                
                
                    
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                                Aliens on Mars began an invasion of Earth because their own resources are dwindling.
                                
H.G.Wells / Published: 1898
                            
                         
                     
                 
             
         
        
        
        
            
                
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                                A group of astronomers succeed at traveling to the Moon
                                in a cannon-propelled capsule and explore the Moon's surface.
Georges Méliès / Released: October 4, 1902
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
                
                
                    
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                                The UFO lands on Washington D.C.
 Robert Wise / Released: September 28, 1951
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
                
                
                    
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                                Astronauts Taylor, Landon and Dodge departed and went deep hibernation, before they vanished two millennia after their departure. 
                                Franklin J. Schaffner / Event: 1972 / Released: March 27, 1968
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
                
                
                    
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                                Talented computer engineer Kevin Flynn is transported into the digital world, where he has to face off against Master Control Program.
                                Steven Lisberger / Released: July 9, 1982
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
                 
                
                    
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                                Winston Smith wrestles with oppression in Oceania, a place where the Party scrutinizes human actions with ever-watchful Big Brother.
                                George Owell/ Event: 1984 / Published: June 8, 1949
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
                   
                
                    
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                                Skynet took over the world. 
James Cameron / Event: August 29, 1997 / Released: July 3, 1991
                            
                         
                     
                 
    
             
         
        
        
    
        
        
            
                
                    21TH CENTURY
                
            
            
            
                
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                                Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission
                                Stanley Kubrick / Set 2001 / Released in April 3, 1968
                            
                         
                     
                 
             
    
            
            
                
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                                Time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty's future son from disaster
                                Robert Zemeckis / Released in November 22, 1989
                            
                         
                     
                 
             
    
            
            
                
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                                In Los Angeles of 2019, synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies.
                                Ridley Scott/Released in June 25, 1982