In this scenario though, you'd still have to have separate servers for the gamers and for the e-commerce rather than the free-for-all we got instead. Otherwise, without a web anyone straying from the path would be in territory they're not authorized to be in.
Mr. Berners-Lee himself actually...
Suppose Tim Berners-Lee and company think things through a little more and decide that instead of making internet access free to anyone with a modem, they set up a licensing system with a relatively affordable annual fee similar to a vehicle registration. Anyone over 13 could apply, but you'd...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have the use of another language (likely German or Spanish) beyond English adopted as an official national language (this is a double WI since the USA doesn't have an official language at the federal level).
Possibly German if more Germans...
You mean we might be humbled, willing to really make up for past mistakes and be a team player in the international community instead of thinking of world history as just the run-up to the country's creation and of our own history as some kind of hero's journey?!
I remember an interview with Chuck D of Public Enemy talking about the Beastie Boys, saying there was some concern at the time that they would "steal" hip hop from black artists, similar to how the immense popularity of Elvis Presley pushed black rock 'n' rollers like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddly...
Was it possible for the British colonies of North America to maintain a Canada*-like connection to the Crown instead of cutting ties completely? Or could some POD before or after the American Civil War spur one to be created?
*I might not know as much about history as some (read: most) other...
2021? I doubt the CSA could last that long in this scenario. The kind of reaction from poor whites as described in the last paragraph of @wcv215 's post could lead to the country tearing itself apart by the beginning of World War I, if not sooner.
...hmm, perhaps that could butterfly away the...
Inspired by a short discussion in the latest Politiyank thread over in Chat...
Someone suggested the idea of the autogyro being equivalent to a flying car, and suggested widespread adoption could have replaced the car of OTL. I suggested aircraft ownership is too expensive for the average...
A lot of people have said that the New Deal saved America from collapse due to the Great Depression, but what if it had failed or never been enacted? Would a dictatorship rise from its ashes? How would such a state have fared in the rest of the 20th century, and how would that time period have...
I think part of the reason scientists and antinuclear activists have proliferated the idea that "nuclear war = the end of modern civilization FOREVER" is the fear that if politicians and military leaders thought that if there were even a percent of a percentage that humanity could recover...
This could be at any point after Doomsday or any civilization-stunting holocaust, not necessarily within the semi-immediate aftermath. It could be even a century later.
I know that the supposed "realistic" scenario for a nuclear war in the early 80s is everyone who isn't vaporized/immolated...
This thread has had some interesting responses. What I mainly posted it for was to see what a world with static popular culture would feel like, and something hit me today...if the current shutdown of Hollywood and other entertainment production due to COVID-19 continues long enough, we'll...
I don't know that prog rock in its original form could've stayed popular, given that the average person's musical tastes are generally aimed towards things that are simple and immediate (meaning no 3-5 minute intros). It certainly didn't help that a lot of those kinds of bands tended to beat...
I was at my local mall the other day, and I began reminiscing internally about when I worked there, in the very early 2000s after graduating high school. I thought back to when I was starting out in music and Sega's last console before the conglomerates and jocks took over video games, the...