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@plut0nian If he likes dragons *and* history, then I recommend the Temeraire books by Naomi Novik, which asks the question, what if we add dragons to the Napoleonic Wars?
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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?
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"Something about the way you look tonight" - Elton John
In another universe, this would have been the lead single from his album, released on 8 September (week of "Sunchyme" and "Stand by me").
It had had good radio play, Elton was riding the success of "The Lion King."
Would probably have gone top ten for a week. Certainly played on Radio 2 and Heart FM till Christmas, and the album would have been big.
And then they interrupted Catch...
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
Writing a rough start to a Game Engine "Wikipedia" page for the Alt Timeline. It's in Google Docs, until I can set up a less... Google share space. #PCEngine #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.