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  1. WI: More restricted internet

    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...

  2. AHC: Bilingual USA from the get-go

    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...

  3. Music/pop culture WI: Foo Fighters develops from Nirvana/Grohl takes over

    Suppose Kurt Cobain lives but quits Nirvana, leaving Dave Grohl as the only singer/songwriter left in the group. What next?

  4. Eminem ten-fifteen years earlier: the Elvis of hip hop?

    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...

  5. British-American Commonwealth

    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...

  6. AHC: Make gyrocopters the primary short- to medium-range travel method for the rich by the late 20th century

    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...

  7. New Deal Fails = Fascist US?

    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...

  8. Minor (?) POD: What if only 1 of the Twin Towers fell

    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...

  9. Post-Doomsday pop culture

    Recently I've been reading the 1983: Doomsday timeline over on the Alt History Wikia a lot, and theorizing whether or not I would've lived through it (likely not, considering Pittsburgh is on the nuking list although Mount Washington could theoretically have protected much of the south hills...

  10. Could the Axis Powers have attacked the mainland United States?

    Was there any airplane used by the Axis powers that could've bombed, say New York City? Did they have any submarines/ships that could've landed on the East Coast and mounded an invasion? I'm asking this because I've heard that the turning point of the Second World War was when Hitler decided...

  11. WI: Allied powers don't assist former Axis powers in rebuilding after WW2...

    ...and/or instead treat their countries as conquered territories? I was thinking the other day about the whole Make America Great Again thing, and to most of the people in that movement, that era of "greatness" was the postwar economic boom. But in reality, part of the reason for said boom was...

  12. AHC: Prevent the US from expanding to the West Coast

    Or even beyond the Mississippi River, for that matter... Closest thing I can come up with is the British providing weaponry/supplies to the Native Americans and/or multiple tribes forming an alliance to fight the colonists more effectively... Also, how would the world look today had this been...

  13. North America Minus America

    OK it was probably inevitable that the British colonists would've eventually sought independence from the crown, but what if somehow they didn't? Would Texas and California still exist as sovereign nations? I imagine things would be pretty much the same for Canada. Also, the Abolition of the...

  14. For car guys/gals: GM Broken Up Instead of Bailed Out

    Bob Lutz, former CEO of General Motors, went on record recently saying that when they asked the government for money, they were told they had too many brands. This is why Pontiac got the axe; Buick only survived because of their success in China (I forget why GMC was spared). But let's...

  15. Embargo Eternal: 1973 Oil Crisis Never Ended

    Suppose that around the time of OPEC's formation, an Ayatollah Khomeini-type of dictator came to power in Saudi Arabia after a coup. Full of animosity and hatred toward the "Great Satan", he refuses to sell crude oil to the US for less than $50 a barrel (we're taking early 70s money here). How...

  16. American Resolution: Taxation with Representation

    What if the British and the American colonies had come to a mutual agreement with regards to taxing the colonies or anything that would've made an open revolt/independence from Britain unnecessary? Would the country we now know as America exist? Would it still be a part of the United...

  17. Would the US be where it's at today...

    ...without the devastation of Europe in the World Wars? Think about this for a moment- the US was the only major nation involved in either war to come out on top in the end. Aside from Pearl Harbor, we didn't lose any civilians and no major cities suffered damage of any kind. Throughout...

  18. AHC: North American Federation of Canada and the United States (NAF)

    I guess the challenge is to unite Canada and the US into one sovereign state a la the United Kingdom, although what I really have in mind is the Union states only...so the POD is the Union losing the American Civil War. Also, it would be cool if somebody could do a flag...I'm thinking a plain...
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