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--- links:ah_on_the_web [2018/06/01 12:00] – duplicate removed max_sinister
+++ links:ah_on_the_web [2023/11/18 13:38] (current) – [Major alternate history websites] max_sinister
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   * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com|AH.com]]**, what else :)
-    * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/webguide.html|The Alternate History Web Guide of AH.com]]**
+    * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220031438/http://www.alternatehistory.com/webguide.html|The Alternate History Web Guide of AH.com]]**
     * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/|The AH.com Discussion Board]]** (which you've probably visited, if you're reading this wiki)
   * **[[http://www.uchronia.net|Uchronia.net : The Complete List of Alternate History Books]]** - Highly recommended. [[offtopic:uchronia|This database]] is an exhaustive overview of works of fiction or speculative non-fiction which fit within the alternate history genre. If you're looking for alternate history literature, this place is as good as any to start.
-  * **[[http://www.writers-ark.com|The Writer's Ark]]** - [[offtopic:writer's ark|Discussion forum]] for readers and writers of speculative fiction. Online and active since early 2016, the forum serves as a refocused spiritual successor to AH.com's [[links:ah_on_the_web#defunct_alternate_history_websites|defunct]] cousin, [[offtopic:Counter-factual.net]].
   * **[[offtopic:Sea Lion Press]]** - Founded in 2015, SLP is the first publishing house dedicated to alternate history fiction by new talented authors, specialising in publishing their works in e-book formats and as paperbacks.
     * **[[http://forum.sealionpress.co.uk|Sea Lion Press Forums]]** - The discussion forums of Sea Lion Press, for discussing alternate history literature (including works published by SLP) and alternate history fiction and writing in general.
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   * **[[http://ib.frath.net/w/Main_Page|The Ill Bethisad Project]]** - Famous and long-lived [[timelines:ill_bethisad|alternate worldbuilding project]], which originally started out as a project of alternate linguistics back in the late 1990s.
   * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20081225182149/http://www.gurpswiki.net/default.aspx/InfiniteWorldsWiki/InfiniteWorldsWiki.html|Infinite Worlds Wiki (for GURPS)]]** (dead since end of 2008)
-    * Replaced by **//[[http://gurps.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Worlds|GURPS Infinite Worlds]]//**
+    * Replaced by **//[[https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/GURPS_Infinite_Worlds|GURPS Infinite Worlds]]//**
   * **[[http://zompist.com/virtuver.htm|Virtual Verduria]]**
-  * **[[http://bullspec.blogspot.com|The Bull Spec Blog/E-zine]]**
+  * **[[https://bullspec.com|The Bull Spec Blog/E-zine]]** (until 2012 [[http://bullspec.blogspot.com|here]])
   * **[[http://www.todayinah.co.uk/ctt_index.php?noimages=1|Changing the Times]]** (also named "Today in AH")
-  * **[[http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page|Alternate History Wiki on wikia]]**
+  * **[[alternate_history:althist_fandom_wiki|Alternate History Fandom Wiki (ex-wikia)]]**
-  * **[[http://www.othertimelines.com|This Day In Alternate History]]** (aka othertimelines.com)
+  * **[[http://althistfiction.com|Alt Hist: Historical Fiction and Alternate History]]** Blog ("Temporarily Closed to Submissions" since 2020)
-  * **[[http://althistfiction.com/|Alt Hist: Historical Fiction and Alternate History]]** Blog
+  * **[[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/warships1discussionboards/naval-fiction-f67/|The Naval Fiction Board]]** (historical and alternate history naval fiction)
-  * **[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alternate-history/|The Yahoo! Alternate History Group]]**
-    * **[[https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ahtg/info|The Alternate History Travel Guides]]**
-  * **[[http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/forums/67/The-Naval-Fiction-Board#.UIkRTGe8Cgc|The Naval Fiction Board]]** (historical and alternate history naval fiction)
     * **[[http://web.archive.org/web/20050407163029/http://home.att.net/~leverett/saga.html|The Saga of Tarrantry Project]]** (first created on the naval fiction board, this separate official site is now archived via archive.org) + [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/warships1discussionboards/the-naval-fiction-board-f67/#.UIkRTGe8Cgc|a page about the Terrentrian naval air service]]
   * **[[http://letterstime.com|Letterstime]]** (WWI era naval alternate history)
-  * **[[http://alternate-timelines.proboards.com|Alternate Timelines discussion forum]]** - [[offtopic:Lordroel]]'s own personal AH forum where most of his timelines are posted, but is also in use as a general AH site as well.
+  * **[[https://alternate-timelines.com|Alternate Timelines discussion forum]]** - [[offtopic:Lordroel]]'s own personal AH forum (founded in 2015) where most of his timelines are posted, but is also in use as a general AH site as well. Some of the most interesting threads there are [[https://alternate-timelines.com/thread/2804/great-1914-1918-real-time|those ones about each World War]] - [[https://alternate-timelines.com/thread/2181/world-war-ii-real-time|both in real time]]. That is, every day Lord Roel will post a summary about the day gone by.
-  * **[[http://althistoria.proboards.com|Althistoria discussion forum]]** - Run by [[offtopic:Krall]], another forum.
+  * **[[https://www.facebook.com/groups/2208892565/|AH group on (*sigh*) Facebook]]**
-  * **[[http://diverginguniverses.proboards.com|Diverging Universes discussion forum]]** - Run by [[offtopic:Ismailov]]
+  * **[[https://historum.com/speculative-history/|Speculative History on Historum]]**
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     * **[[http://counter-factual.net/discussion|The CF.net Discussion Board]]** - With links to both the old and new versions of the board. Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
     * **[[http://counter-factual.net/zine|The CF.Net E-zine]]** - Ceased operations in early 2016, along with the rest of the site.
-  * **[[http://otherhistory.proboards.com/|OtherHistory discussion forum]]** - Run by members of CF.net upon the latter's announcement of shutdown. Now seems to be defunct as well.
+  * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20171010050518/http://otherhistory.proboards.com|OtherHistory discussion forum]]** - Run by members of CF.net upon the latter's announcement of shutdown. Now seems to be defunct as well, since 2017 to be precise.
   * **[[http://web.archive.org/web/20071212170442/http://www.btinternet.com/~chief.gnome/|Anthony Wells' "What if Gordon Banks had played ?" TL]]** (archived version, dead since 2007)
   * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160408140634/http://www.tateville.com:80/althistory/|J.T.'s Alternate History Site]]** (dead since 2016)
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   * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20080802044329/https://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/enigma/writing/fut-his/|Enigma - Future History]]** - An interesting future history project written by a group of students in 1990 - it is now hilariously outdated, but is a good example of former futurologic stories becoming honorary alternate history over time. (Dead since 2008)
   * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20171109223633/http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Research/What-If/WhatIf.HTM|A geological WI]]** (Dead since 2017)
+  * **[[http://althistoria.proboards.com|Althistoria discussion forum]]** (Run by [[offtopic:Krall]], another forum. Archived in 2020.)
+  * **[[http://diverginguniverses.proboards.com|Diverging Universes discussion forum]]** (Run by [[offtopic:Ismailov]]. Inactive since 2018.)
+  * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191216001847/http://www.writers-ark.com/|The Writer's Ark]]** - [[offtopic:writer's ark|Discussion forum]] for readers and writers of speculative fiction. Online and active since early 2016, the forum serves as a refocused spiritual successor to AH.com's [[links:ah_on_the_web#defunct_alternate_history_websites|defunct]] cousin, [[offtopic:Counter-factual.net]]. Meanwhile also dead, sadly.
+  * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20210118001647/http://othertimelines.com|This Day In Alternate History]]** (aka OtherTimelines.com - dead since 2021)
+  * **[[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alternate-history/|The Yahoo! Alternate History Group]]** (hell knows what happened to them)
+    * **[[https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ahtg/info|The Alternate History Travel Guides]]**
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     * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=287759|Jour J - French AH Comics Collection]]**
   * **[[http://fai.org.ru/forum/|Russian Alternate History Forum]]**
-  * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150621211015/http://alternathistory.org.ua|Ukrainian Alternate History Forum]]** (mostly in Russian - dead since 201)
+  * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150621211015/http://alternathistory.org.ua|Ukrainian Alternate History Forum]]** (mostly in Russian - dead since 2015+x)
-  * **[[http://www.zeitenschmiede.de|German Alternate History Site]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20030409071854/http://www.ambassadore.net/zeitenschmiede/forum.pl|with]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050830003345/http://www.technokraten.org:80/forum/forum.pl|Forum - dead since 2003/05]]**
+  * **[[http://www.zeitenschmiede.de|German Alternate History Site]]**
+    * **[[https://web.archive.org/web/20030409071854/http://www.ambassadore.net/zeitenschmiede/forum.pl|with]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050830003345/http://www.technokraten.org:80/forum/forum.pl|Forum]]** (dead since 2003/05)
+  * **Various non-English versions of the Alternate History Fandom Wiki (ex-wikia):**
+    * [[https://althistory.fandom.com/es/wiki/Portada|Portada (Spanish)]]
+    * [[https://althistory.fandom.com/de/wiki/Hauptseite|Hauptseite (German)]]
+    * [[https://althistory.fandom.com/ru/wiki/AI|Alternativnaya Istoriya (Russian)]]
+    * [[https://althistory.fandom.com/pt/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal|Página principal (Portuguese)]]
+    * [[https://althistory.fandom.com/pl/wiki/Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna|Strona główna (Polish)]]
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