This is incredibly mundane and pointless, but as it pertains to literature, I guess it goes here.
A Tangled Tale is a collection of humorous short stories written by Lewis Carroll between 1880 and 1885 and serialized in The Monthly Packet magazine. Each story presented a mathematical problem and readers sent in their solutions. In the version I’m familiar with, the readers’ real names are not given; instead, they have aliases or handles (nowadays we might use the term “usernames”). One of these was “Bradshaw of the Future”, which always struck me as being incredibly … postmodern for the 1880s. I mean, H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine didn’t even come out until 1895. It sounds more like the title of a Monty Python sketch than something I would have expected from the 19th century.
I really don’t have anything else to say about it… just noting a bit of humor that seemed ahead of its time in more ways than one!