early internet

  1. Luxembourgish Jane

    I Love Democracy: A Fictional World
    Threadmarks: Introdution

    A new project from the depths of my tired brain. Originally a one off map based on an idea soon turned into it's own project I've shared on discord and both Wikibox, Map, and personal threads, after thinking about it I think making it's own thread just creates less clutter for both...
  2. Earlier War on Terror: Any effects on the development of the internet?

    Let's say that 1993 WTC bombing is successful and War on Terror starts 8 years earlier. Would the US government try to regulate/censor/make less private the internet in early 90s or the internet was still seen as to insignificant to care abot considering its novelity at the time? Or maybe some...
  3. Would there be a Global Internet without the Dissolution of the Soviet Union?

    Putting aside the how of the Soviet Union surviving: would we see something like the modern, global internet if the kept on going? I've been thinking about this for a while now, but I kind of doubt it. On the one hand, I'm unsure if the US government would so readily open up the internet not...
  4. Lord_Vespasian

    Development of the Internet and Intermodal Containers By A Stronger and Longer Lasting British Empir

    In a world where the Empire remained strong and stable, (Why? I don't know, perhaps no intervention in WWI to start) would it have funded people and projects that could lead to an earlier form of the Internet (primary incentive being faster and safer communication across the Empire in a way the...
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