Obscure AH Websites

[Strategos' Risk]

Have you ever found any sites unlisted in the directory, without any connections to any AH community or allhistorians?

Paul Burgess writes a lot of surrealistic fiction. His most alternate historical one is the Chinese Columbus, a creative story where Zheng He brings the Chinese into America. For some unexplained reason, Europe is weak and stagnant under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire. Nevertheless, it is a very well-written story.

He’s also got a few other stories that may be considered alternate history because they were written before the Soviets collapsed- he calls them althist, himself.

 

[Grey Wolf]

Am I listed in the directory ?

The 'Alternate History Fiction' board in my sig :-

http://p209.ezboard.com/balternatehistoryfictory

http://p209.ezboard.com/falternatehistoryfictoryfrm7

Grey Wolf

 

[G.Bone]

Great story-

It's very well written.

 

[Pax Britannia]

Am I listed in the directory ?

The 'Alternate History Fiction' board in my sig :-

http://p209.ezboard.com/balternatehistoryfictory

http://p209.ezboard.com/falternatehistoryfictoryfrm7

Grey Wolf

Its a shame most AH boards have very basic forums

 

[Jesse]

Here's a now-defunct webpage about what might have happened if JFK had lived, which can still be viewed thanks to archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011004080949/www.guterman.net/jfkzone/whatif/

And here's a still-mostly-unfinished page about a world where the dinosaurs never went extinct (the most complete section is probably The History of the World):

http://www.geocities.com/dbensen2/index.html

 

[Grey Wolf]

Its a shame most AH boards have very basic forums

How complex do you want it to be ? I was rather under the impression that people liked simple easy-to-understand forums, since the content is more important than flashing graphics, bells and whistles ?

Grey Wolf

 

[Pax Britannia]

How complex do you want it to be ? I was rather under the impression that people liked simple easy-to-understand forums, since the content is more important than flashing graphics, bells and whistles ?

Grey Wolf

I just hate the basic outline. I prefer forums to have sigs and avatars and so on. Most AH website seem to be running of some eastern european econo drive.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

I remember this incredibly long TL where meteor strikes hit everything from Iberia to Taiwan, wiping out all civilization in the Old World. I got bored of it since it focused on the Amerindians, who took centuries to discover the wheel, but it was well-written. I have found no trace of it at all.

I've always liked the Matt Trepal TL- it's in the Directory, but is now defunct.

Keep on sending your obscure sites! Games and GURPS Infinite Earth sites good, too. At the very least, we can put these in the Directory or Web Guide.

 

[Jesse]

I've always liked the Matt Trepal TL- it's in the Directory, but is now defunct.

This one is also available from archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030622024045/http://www.erie.net/~mtrepal2/althist/althist.html

Keep on sending your obscure sites! Games and GURPS Infinite Earth sites good, too. At the very least, we can put these in the Directory or Web Guide.

Here's a game, not currently active but you can read the archives:

http://groups.msn.com/parallelearths/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us

 

[Jesse]

I remember this incredibly long TL where meteor strikes hit everything from Iberia to Taiwan, wiping out all civilization in the Old World. I got bored of it since it focused on the Amerindians, who took centuries to discover the wheel, but it was well-written. I have found no trace of it at all.

This one might be from Pteranodon's website, which no longer has any alternate history scenarios and doesn't have old copies on archive.org (that guess is based on this usenet thread which mentions an Amerindian-dominated timeline by Andrew S. Goldstein which was on Pteranodon's site). Maybe someone could email Pteranodon and ask if he'd send 'em the timelines he had so they could be hosted on another site?

 

[Jesse]

That usenet post I linked to in my last post mentions some other sites that are now dead, but which were rescued by archive.org:

John Mullervy's Alternate History Page

JD Jacob's Alternate History Page

Nacho's Alternate History Page

 

[Jesse]

Three more defunct websites I just found:

Matt Alderman's Making History, which contains the excellent detailed timeline A World of Difference: The Babbage Revolution 1822-2000, in which Charles Babbage actually built his Analytical Engine (some of the sub-pages were not archived, unfortunately)

Tommy's Page of Things That Might Have Been

Jim Rittenhouse's Alternate History page (Jim Rittenhouse still hosts the Point of Departure fanzine but no longer has any stuff on his own AH site)

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Thanks! I think this thread should be stickied or preserved somewhere.

 

[sunsurf]

One of you guys on another thread mentioned the Staufens so I did a search and found this site. But I didn't find the Staufens on this site! But it does have some interesting what-ifs.

http://www.talkabouthistory.com/group/soc.history.what-if/latestposts.html

 

[Diamond]

Does anyone else feel like the overall amount of AH stuff on the web has declined in the last year or two? A huge number of existing sites/scenarios/etc have dropped out of sight, and next to zero new ones have appeared...

 

[G.Bone]

Yeah- I noticed that too- on google as well-

 

[Diamond]

You'll have one more obscure site pretty soon. I'm in the process of putting together a site that archives a lot of my work-in-progress TLs as well as a bunch of random AH ideas and snippets. I'll post the link when it's up and running.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

I'm going to organize all of these links some time, and submit it for the AH Web Guide/Directory.

By the way, there's a GURPS Wiki out there:
www.gurpswiki.net/

It has a section of alternate earths.

 

[Midgard]

(bump bump)

Speaking of obscure AH sites, here is one:

http://www.midgard.invisionplus.net

It is a shameless self-plug-in from me, by the way, and is the forum featuring some of my AH (and non-AH) writings, with a fairly low level of activity, but hopefully, some day... Then again, it is based more on the writing side of things than on pure AH only.

 

[Sargon]

Oh well...

I'd better plug mine too since everyone else sems to be doing theirs:

Sargon's Alternate History Forum

You'll find some familiar names there. And there are other interesting forums there too, not just AH. Get posting guys

Click the link, or follow the one in my sig for all my forums.

Sargon