inapplicable (adjective)

1. The concept of smartphones would have been inapplicable during the Renaissance period.

2. In the science fiction novel, time travel was rendered inapplicable as the protagonist got stuck in a single timeline.

3. The inapplicability of logic in mythology often leads to fantastical and improbable events.

4. I told a joke about computer programming to my grandmother, but it fell flat as it was completely inapplicable to her generation.