Has anyone worked out an #althistory where TCP/IP and/or HTTP(s) were proprietary? Could the internet meaningful exist in such a world?
Working through some reflections on progress and private property for my blog Misaligned Markets and this topic came up with friends.
Maybe the question just boils down to what size network effect do you need for the internet to facilitate communications and commerce and does fragmenting it change that?
Harry Turtledove wrote a book (Ruled Britannia) once about Shakespeare, and the Spanish Armada had landed and England was under Spanish rule and its actually by far his best #book because Shakespeare and Marlowe team up to make #agitprop about Boudica and at one point theres this line
"No Epilogue here, unless you make it.
You want your freedom? Go and take it."
No reason for bringing that up. #amReading #AltHistory @bookstodon
@davidaugust @seeingwithsound @EUCommission My first ancestor in North America was one of the original Dutch tenant farmers on Long Island (1647). The Dutch were thrown out by the British; many simply went to New Jersey. I wonder how things would be different if the Dutch had retained New Amsterdam. #altHistory
Nova Patria (in development), a Roman alt-history steampunk citybuilder releases their Feb 2025 video update highlighting art direction updates and new gameplay dynamics.
On my reading blog, I review Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett. The second book in the alt-history fantasy is as delightful and cozy as the first.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2025/02/emily-wildes-map-of-otherlands-by.html
Alternate history where the modern pinnacle of console gaming is Hudsonsoft's Game Engine Power 8. It's the same AU as my Commodore Dominates Computing one. While the Hudson handheld is a separate unit, the Go Engine and Game Engine use the same UltraHuCards.
