Hm, I'm kind of torn on my opinions of Steampunk in general.... but I have a very definite set of impressions that spring to mind when you talk about it.
Brass and bronze clockwork machinery, oversized and hissing and whistling with the steam that powers them, great clouds of steam filling the air....
airships, corsets, moderate bustles and the rise of the Rational Dress Society.... Spyglasses and brass-ferrules on hidden-sword umbrellas, sturdy canvas petticoats weighed down by over-pocketed dresses with mock-military frogging, top-hats and monocles and industrial-strength parasols...
Early industrial-era things don't tend to appeal to me (loud, noisy, polluting messes of machinery), but the Steampunk aesthetic is often a gorgeous sort of art-deco look which I adore, and they're usually analog not digital which is also more my style.
I'm pretty torn about this one.
If I were in a steampunk world, I'd probably be one of those Luddites decrying the modern machinery and desperately trying to keep the steam and humidity of the modern devices away from my books and my library (think of the mold!)...
and spend my evenings volunteering to help record some of the more classic volumes onto newfangled music-box-style metal memory drums.
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