Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26235531-20150717211438

This has probably already been addressed or asked by others, but I was rewatching the opening episodes of Season 1 and 4 earlier and I was wondering where the fairly modern technology comes from in Storybrooke?

There's computers and cell phones - albeit fairly dated looking ones, save for Regina's Blackberry phone - but if Storybrooke came into existence during the 80s, they wouldn't have been around.

Since nothing presumably comes in or out of Storybrooke (without severe consequences) then this technology must have appeared in the town in the 80s, before it's creation.

Or does Storybrooke exist a slightly skewed timeline from the outside world - as in it appeared in 2012 and stayed frozen in that one year for 28 years (this obviously doesn't work because of what happened with Greg/Owen.

I feel some things could be explained away such as Hook's cell phone, he could have grabbed one from New York - but then every major character seems to have cell phones (Robin's contact list showed that) 