So a shorter WW1 and butterflied or at least delayed WW2, which also seriously delayed any national freeway/autobahn system?
yes to cassette futurismThis feels like something that would be a bit more common in a dieselpunk timeline.
Maybe I should make some atompunk/space age and Casette futurism/cyberpunk AHCs?
It would be interesting to see how we could plausibly get the cassette futurism and cyberpunk originally envisioned from the 1970's to 1990's period to actually happen.yes to cassette futurism
Well here you go.yes to cassette futurism
Dieselpunk
is a genre similar to steampunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology
Well considering he spent four years running around the western front as a courier and immediately after that there was the Spanish Flu getting rid of old pencil stash wouldn't be much of a problem. Now the Japanese on the other hand might be a bit more of a problem... Now getting rid of WW2 or replace it with a radically different conflict would be the way to go for delaying atomic power or at least the bomb.from Wikipedia
I think it's good base to define this AHC
important is delay/stop the development of Atomic power, otherwise it's becoming Atompunk
Main reason for building Atomic technology was WW2, how is consider the time end point for Dieselpunk genre (interwar period 1918-1939)
Means for annoying little Austrian and his german goons, some deadly must happen to them.
also to some Japanese Generals also...