Just a trivial time line I will start, you can object and yell at me. Because this is the Internet, we'd all be pawns of the Media Empires if we type and submit at all.
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Unknowable Eons: God makes everything. He just doesn't make it all right away. He decides to start with an explosion though, and it will be called "Untitled Project" for a great many years. In this project, which frequently breaks the fourth wall, life emerges eventually. God decides to end life quickly, but it quickly spreads faster than he cares, and he lets it try it's best to catch up with him.
~0 AD: Jesus is born in a manger. His father is God, and he controls the Multiverse Media Empire. His mother is a woman named Mary. She gives birth to him in a manger under a bright star. Three men show up and give his adoptive father gifts to pay to watch Mary give birth. Animals get in to the peep-show for free.
~30 AD: Jesus dies after his most famous gay kiss is misconstrued by the authorities. Then changes his mind three days later, rising as a ghost. He proceeds to play mind-games with his friends. They worship zombie Jesus and he doesn't tell them to stop. Why he does this, we don't really know, and it is much debated even today.
1493 AD: The printing press emerges from the decadent wastelands of Europe. Because it allows the printing of the bible faster than ever before, people decide to start book clubs to show it to others. This is the start of the First Media Empire (of Earth), as 'Missionaries' prove to be very touchy about their favourite book. They start to fight amongst themselves even more than they had before. This splits their empires into smaller ones, which now have to compete with not only each other, but 'Heathens' and 'Pagans' as well.
1701 AD: With the Media Empires in broad alliances conforming to nation's wishes, ruling classes look for a way to guide the lower classes. Daily newspapers are started. English, a language already described as a language for peasant-pleasing plays and the butt of jokes for court jesters, now becomes the language for peasants butts as well, in the form of readable toilet paper. Court Jesters learn it to start tabloids about the rich. Soon the pen will be mightier than the sword and first drafts more common then passenger pigeons.
1809 AD: Electrical telegraphs begin to replace optical telegraphs. Optical telegraphs remain as the Media Empires do not hold enough sway over the people as they dream of. However, news travels faster everyday, filling the heads of people with bothersome subjects like "A patient waiter is no loser". With the use of telegraphs expanded to the blind by electricity, the Media Empires of the world begin to consolidate. Now totally free from geography, information ran rampant through the heads of people, inspiring the breaking of treaties and the attacking of militarys.
~1930 AD: Television is sold as if it were the wave of the future. It proves to be a Tsunami, beating the Radio with more than a thousand words every second. No one dares to try best TV over the radio, as it would be thought of as jibber-jabber (a phrase to be made famous by TV). Propaganda spreads from it easily, as does advertising. Capitalists rejoice and Communists grab their axes, as the idiot-box has defeated the revolution for a little while longer.
2000 AD: The Emo trend kicks into overdrive after two thousand years of waiting for Jesus to come out of his cave again. Despite the world not coming to an end, many still cling to the hope it will. The Religious Media Empires shake a small bit, but holds fast. The Internet is not yet self-aware, but to the sleeping giant of a globally-connected network, it is too early to notice. It hits the snooze alarm and is still only a geek thing to many people.
2005 AD: A Mormon author by the name of Stephanie Meyers publishes the novel Twilight. It is successful due on the newly-risen Emo fad having deviant sexual urges based on biblical stories. It begins a swath of fangirlism the likes of which many had not thought possible for one womans wet dream. Media Empires take notice and start circling like wolves, snapping up advertising possibilities and discussions. The great Circle-Jerking-The-Drain (of Doom) has begin.
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So, you kinda notice this is written as satire. I'm not a professional, so feel free to poke holes and such. I just wanted to start a TL where Greed, mixed with Information and a bit of Violence ends us all. You can kinda imagine why a book about a wet dream written by an amateur author starts to unravel the fabric of society as it gets out of control with fangirlism, right? I mean, it's not all Twilights fault, I just needed to keep it humorous.
Edit: Right, I forgot to say these are some non-butterflied examples. I was too tried and kind of forgot to say that (obviously) these aren't alternate history. Not yet anyways. I'm going to intersperse some other events between 2005 and 2009 just to start it off.