Interest/Feasibility/Existence of a possible new subgenre?

This might need to be moved, but I felt it was at least partially relevant here:

I couldn't sleep last night and I got to thinking about all the "-punk" suffix subgenres of alternate history, (or fantasy, as you like it). There is bronzepunk, clockpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, etc. but I've never heard of anyone imagining a world in which the culture and society of the mid-20th century Cold War-era is given a widespread boost with earlier, more primitive version of the technology we had in the 1980's-1990's.

Cold War punk? Coldpunk?

For example, a 1950's-1960's with earlier and more widespread computers, video games, internet, etc.

The POD would have to be in the 30's at the latest and would have to not actively effect the course of history until the middle to the end of the Second World War, but the idea is to have at least a primitive form of the internet, video games (as primitive or as advanced as you like but it has to be partially realistic, i.e. Arcade games), music downloads, satellite radio, personal computers, chordless phones, etc.

Earlier and cheaper televisions and household computers followed by an earlier (possibly joint Soviet-American) Space Program? I would guess the tech boost finally occurs in the late forties and it takes until the late fifties for it to be eighties level, leading to a sixties with internet and music downloads.

I'm not a technophile by any means and have little to no idea what would entail something like this but:

A. Is anyone interested in fleshing this out with me?

B. Is this at all feasible and how?

and

C. Does this already exist and I just don't know about it?

I was envisioning rock and roll being the first to latch on to the new medium and the fates of the two are tied. Waiters in a Soda shop talking on their Nochord phones, kicking an archaic 3D cine-game of "The Angry Red Planet" while kids run off with the 3D glasses required to play it. Radio stations emitted by satellite fear obsolescence as The Beatles release Revolver (with an adventure game for an extra dollar) for download to your HJB (Home Jukebox) via your Cablephone line. Operators are standing by, kids...

That kind of stuff.

If I get positive responses and a little help from my friends I'll write something.
 
On the feasibility (by which I figure you mean the feasibility of scenario itself) IMHO it would be very hard to strike the balance in wide availability of the said technology and the need of major actors in Cold War to keep a closed lid on information and technology as such.

Internet, for example, was revealed to the world only after the Cold War has passed and I presume, so were many of the other stuff. Some things were available or theoretically possible, but were kept in the dark for the fear that other side finds out.

One could even argue that faster adoption of technology would bring about the end of the Cold war earlier as the leaders of USSR start losing the grip on the power earlier. If you negotiate this somehow, then yes it would be interesting to read.
 
On the feasibility (by which I figure you mean the feasibility of scenario itself) IMHO it would be very hard to strike the balance in wide availability of the said technology and the need of major actors in Cold War to keep a closed lid on information and technology as such.

Internet, for example, was revealed to the world only after the Cold War has passed and I presume, so were many of the other stuff. Some things were available or theoretically possible, but were kept in the dark for the fear that other side finds out.

One could even argue that faster adoption of technology would bring about the end of the Cold war earlier as the leaders of USSR start losing the grip on the power earlier. If you negotiate this somehow, then yes it would be interesting to read.

Thank you for the response.

I think the availability of the resources of much of the technology was there, but the need/desire for their basic components just wasn't yet.

However, looking at the feasibility of other "-punk" subgenres, handwavium is typically applied, which puts this soundly in the wrong subforum but is still an interesting topic of discussion.

Does anyone else have any ideas?
 
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Internet, for example, was revealed to the world only after the Cold War has passed and I presume, so were many of the other stuff. Some things were available or theoretically possible, but were kept in the dark for the fear that other side finds out.
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The “internet Mk. 1” existed well before the end of the Cold War. Thus you could send emails (in 1986 I used to have to edit a BSMTP envelope), login via Telnet or download files by FTP. The internet that we all know and love depended on Tim Berners-Lee development over 1980 to 1990 of the idea of a form written in HTML that could be filled in and returned to a server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Origins. The point was that, unlike Telnet, the server did not have to keep checking if you had typed a character.
 
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