alternate history

Exactly as the title says, what is the oldest known Alternate History story to appear on the Internet?

Let us say that, in the future, some scientists have created satellites capable of something that seems science fiction for now—punching the walls of the universe to study an alternate reality. By that scenario, some hundreds of “alternate Earths” from hundreds of alternate universes would...

After the death of Emperor Taizong in 649 AD, the concubines and maids of his harem were sentenced to two different fates. Those who had given birth to children were allowed to retire into luxury in a palace. Although secluded, they would want for nothing the rest of their days. Those who had...

There are a multiple ways in which Chile, which had the similar economic potential early in the 20th century as Australia and New Zealand, could have infinitely become better off than the mess it has become in the past 50-plus years. I find some the best ways are: 1. Avoid the severe...

This will be a sounding board for ideas on an alternate history timeline that was started almost 4 years ago. I admit that there are several fantastical ideas here, but that’s why I’d like input and assistance in ironing out the details of this timeline. Thank you to all that will participate...

Project X: An Experimental Free-Form Alternate History Work By Steve “Alternate Steve” L. Prologue: Hello, ladies and gentlemen, it's Steve L.-you all on AlternateHistory.com also know me by my longtime username on here, "CaliBoy1990". For those of you who enjoy the alternate...

Attention!! This prototype of alternative history has been modified severely to increase consistency, it is recommended to reread all parts. If you are reading this, I welcome you to this prototype of alternative history. This part will be considered as the First Point of Divergence. Stein's...

"You're listening to the Dollop! This is a biweekly American history podcast where each week I, Sokovia Accords protestor..." "Okay," "Car driver..." "Dave, come on..." "Man who's seen the Devil of Hell's Kitchen..." "No you haven't!" "Dave Anthony, read a story from American...

While researching something on the Six Day wars, I stumbled upon an illustration of several proposed Jewish states/possible alternate history Israels, and that led to a rabbit hole of proposed Jewish states throughout history. There were so many variations of the idea of giving the Jews their...

For Byzantine timeline lovers, this one may be interesting. The date is not set and you can choose whatever POD from 532 to 1453 as long as its set on the Byzantine period. The typical roman legionary that lurks in the collective mindset is that of the Gladius wielding, Pilum throwing armored...

Foreword: This timeline and scenario will be based on both the Amazon TV Show and other elements from Fatherland, The New Order and other alternate histories. However, there will be no science fiction type material such as dimension flipping and alternate universes. This is just a unique crafted...

Another challenge of mine (muahahaha), so what if a particularly virulent and fatal strain of the Black Death evolved in the grasslands of Central Asia prior to its spread across Eurasia, maybe the genome of the bacteria was changed by a few base sequences or so. By the mid 13th century, the...

Al-Andalus was in decline for centuries (corruption and decadence come into mind) and was at its death kneel by 1200 with the power balance clearly in favour of the Christian Kingdoms of Portugal, Castille and Aragon. However, I challenge you to do whatever you can to not only repel the...

There are several historical figures that were not too far off inventing the steam engine however, al-Jazari was undoubtedly the closest, in the early 13th century... A proto-industrial revolution with only al-Jazari's inventions is a possibility, he invented an early crankshaft in 1206 [1], he...

OOC (out of character for those who are new): DB means 'double-blind' where we ask a question which actually occurred in our timeline (OTL) from the perspective of someone in another TL where this happened differently. Anyway, gunpowder was thought to have been accidentally developed by the...

THIS IS OUTDATED: FOR THE REVAMP, PLEASE VIEW HERE https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/what-if-the-french-revolution-never-happened-fraternit%C3%A9-en-r%C3%A9bellion.492683/ Fraternité en Rébellion is a Hearts of Iron IV mod set in the flames of 1933. In this alternate history...

Your challenge is to come up with a scenario where there's a country in the Americas with a mostly Muslim population. Bonus points if you can do it with a POD after 1492.

We have all talked about it, but it has been done. Chip Zdarsky has written a nifty comic mini-series which details what would happen in Marvel characters didn't maintain their same age in a "sliding time scale". As such, the series details, "On this Earth, many Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man...

The reforms of Peter III were very progressive, and in the long term could have led to the greater benefit of the Russian Empire.

The first one barely got off its feet but that was due to me being busy with school and worried about handling events that I mentioned when the time came to it (an example being the fact that we barely had any info on the Stadia at the time). At the same time, I do think that Nintendo could've...