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Remember that autism is about what is inside, so accomodating it would be a different matter. It's unfortunate enough for so many non-homosexual aspies that they're syndrome wasn't recognised in the English-speaking world back when the United States' Psychology Association (APA) still regarded...

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How about seeing his work discovered in the 1960s, even more rebellious than the decade after?

This is an important one for the autistic community. Hans Asperger wrote a lot of work in the 1940s, so suppose it were translated well before 1991.

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Paul Magès was the inventor of the suspension system fitted to larger cars made by Citroën since 1955. Suppose that he patented it himself and licenced it out to various vehicle manufacturers instead of working for just one car company that had the rights to it.

Apparently, Mr. Babbage actually married without permission and lost access to the Babbage fortune. Had he had his father's permission or not married, he would have had access, and may have had enough money to finish the difference engine.

Do you mean those languages in North Africa? Aren't they related to Semitic languages?

Welsh and other Celtic languages are hardly obscure languages: *These languages have long been written. Official dictionaries around the languages have also likely been around for centuries, probably all over the world. *There are plenty of people of Celtic descent in many ex-colonies outside...

Remember that the Navajo code talkers were indigenous people and they were recruited into the millitary by someone called Phillip Johnston. Jerrais and Guernesiais are very similar to French and all three have a lot of simularities with Spanish. Besides these are all Latin based and thus have a...

It turns out that there are 14 living indigenous languages in Argentina, most seem to be obscure.

The idea of a bicycle having been invented earlier has been discussed before, see: *Medieval bicycle *Earliest possible bicycle *WI: Leonardo da Vinci invents the bicycle? *What if bicycles were invented centuries earlier? *WI: Bicycle developed earlier? Another related technology, the bicycle...

I had internet in the mid-1990s and the dial-up noises still ring in my head as the opening theme to the internet. But I do think that wideband telephone lines could have had advantages for fax.

But Digital subscriber line didn't exist back in the 1990s. Also, dial up seems to have been the only way to connect to non-internet bulletin board systems.

Not if you have a separate phone line for dialling up connection.

Normal telephone lines have a bandwidth of something like 300Hz to 3,500Hz. This may have something to do with the technological constraints of the time that the public switched telephone network was implemented. Apparently, this limits dial-up connection to bulletin board system and the...

Would the people of the U.S.A be generally more law abiding if only the police had guns? Is it possible that more Americans would be as concerned with legal niceties as the average European? Would there have not been, for example, been bootlegging such as that of the Camden market, beginning in...

Most of my alternate history threads are about scenarios where the divergence from real history happens in the pre-digital era. This has to do with being born in the wrong decade. Floppy discs are all digital, and when copied correctly, are copied bit-for-bit. The first floppies were introduced...

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