popular culture

From 1993 onwards, what points of divergences and possible scenarios could happen on and/or related to the Internet, World Wide Web, etc.

Many "Potterheads" and even more casual fans of the Harry Potter book series noticed a radical change of tone, and also a kind of decline in the quality of Rowling's writing following her perhaps most successful book "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Fans felt that the more "dark...

Hey everybody!!! The following ATL is an attempt to build a TL that reflects the full extent of how pop culture has affected the culture world we live. As such, please feel free to add your favorite PODs for film, sports, television, video games, and other forms of entertainment... POD...

Since at least the mid-to-late 1800s, the most popular historical era in Western popular culture has been the Middle Ages, specifically the High Middle Ages from about 1000 to 1300. You know, swords and armor, knights, crusades, castles, kings, etc. Sometimes earlier things (like Arthurian...

In 2005 George Lucas and Steven Spielberg released the fourth Indiana Jones film, "Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods." Written by Frank Darabont of "The Shawshank Redemption," the film marked Harrison Ford's return to the role of Indiana Jones 16 years after "The Last Crusade." But it...

We tend to think of pop culture as a 20th century thing, but the term actually dates back to at least 1818. So with that in mind, I decided to start this thread about potential pop culture scenarios with a POD before 1900.

Note: This is based upon a largely apocryphal anecdote that Ronald Reagan was in serious contention to play Rick in Casablanca. While this story is almost certainly based upon the fact that they were throwing numerous names out there as possibilities to play the lead, and Reagan was never a...

Certain bands or acts (Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Queen, Nirvana) seemed poised to have long, fruitful careers of many hits and to change the course of music, and they have. However, other bands or acts are so different, innovative, and great that they seem destined for eternal stardom and...

There are several memes that poke fun at the supposed general French cowardice, saying things like: etc. Nor is it the only place, since to ditch a party without saying anything to anyone is commonly referred to in English as either a French or Irish goodbye (the implication being that the...

Leonard Cohen reached adulthood and chose to write poetry and novels at a time when it was unusual for singers to write their own songs. Not so long later, in 1962, the singer-songwriter was co-introduced by the Beatles and Bob Dylan. Now I know there were singer-songwriters before then, but...

The most shocking loss for the world of Western animation was the death of Seth McFarlane, the creator of cult show Family Guy, in the 9/11 WTC plane crash. McFarlane, as we all know, was a man of many talents: animator, voice actor, director, according to some, he was also a talented singer. We...

There are many timelines dedicated to the victory of the Reds in the Cold War. All of them assess the fate of the world and humanity in different ways, but they all missed an important part of people's lives - culture (in the broadest sense of the word). In fact, many omit the "soul" of a...

In OTL, during the early days of television, there had been cases throughout numerous countries in Europe and worldwide, where episodes of already broadcast programmes and series were routinely wiped from the tapes they were recorded on. The rationale was that these tapes were expensive. With...

While many of the most popular movies in history have been adoptions of books, as far as I know, not a single novelisation of a movie has gained popular or critical acclaim. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can anyone think of a way that this might be changed and popular written adaptions of...

Dagger of Ways The Shadowy World of an Unmade Reboot (A computer game popular culture timeline) - - - - Prologue ---- (...) "I often hear this misconception that we or the guys at Eidos wanted to milk the brand name dry, and the subsequent fallout from Dagger of Ways was our comeuppance...

I'm not necessarily interested in a scenario where Cyan Worlds reboots the series themselves, or some developer partnered with them will do the same. I'm just interested in how you'd do a reboot of the original series, a few years after its official conclusion in 2005. I think this series would...

After having seen Tom Riley and co. in the Doctor Who episode "Robot of Sherwood", I really, really sighed that we didn't get this sort of fun-but-respectful interpretation of the Robin Hood legend on TV in the 2000s or this decade. What I'm missing in the modern day is a Robin Hood based TV...

When Group B was cancelled in the mid 1980s due to FIA's growing concerns over the safety record of these rally cars, the eventual replacement/stopgap solution proposed was the introduction of Group S. However, in OTL, while there was some development going into Group S (e.g. 4 car prototypes...

Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a famous German (and by extension, Continental European) cross and circle tabletop game, somewhat similar to the British Ludo, or the original Indian Pachisi, etc. It was created in 1907/1908 by Josef Friedrich Schmidt of the now-legendary German tabletop publisher...

Yes, that The Dark Dimension anniversary film : http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Dimension How could it survive into production even after the cancellation of the series ? How would it affect DW broadcasting and narrative history ?