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-====== Soc-History-What-If ======
-Commonly abbreviated to SHWI. One of the first AH sites on the internet, predating AH.com.
-It began as a Usenet discussion group, hence the somewhat odd name.
-Noted for producing such [[timelines:non-ah.com timelines|timelines]] and alternate history projects as:
-  * //**[[timelines:Empty America]]**// by Doug Hoff
-  * //**[[timelines:For All Time]]**// by Chet Arthur
-  * //**[[timelines:Shattered World]]**// by Bobby Hardenbrooke
-  * //**[[timelines:Bronze Age New World]]**// by Doug Muir
-  * //**[[http://www.kebe.com/for-all-nails/|For All Nails]]**// - A fan continuation of Sobel's //**[[alternate history:For Want of A Nail]]**//. (Also [[http://fwoan.wikia.com/wiki/For_All_Nails|here]].)
-Also created the [[shared worlds:Mosaic Earth|Mosaic Earth 1]] gaming project and the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20070611004248/http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/|Alison Brooks]]-coined concept of the [[alternate history:Alien Space Bats]]. Needless to say, a lot of the early AH online community concepts and lingo got their start on SHWI.
-Sadly, SHWI has recently fallen silent, its vast catacombs echoing vacantly. The last time anyone looked, the only 'members' there were [[Straha]] and a [[Polish trolls#Polish troll]], who just about deserved each other.
-In April 2018, AH.commers [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/so-spammers-spambots-have-finally-killed-soc-history-what-if-it-appears.442217/|discovered]] that the last remnant of soc.history.what-if has been shut down, apparently after being inflicted by heavy spammer or spambot activity. SHWI seems to have passed into history...
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-==== See Also ====
-**[[links:AH on the Web]]**
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-==== Navigation ====
-**[[AH.com's Interwebsite Relations]]**
-**[[alternate history:ah slang and acronyms|AH.com's AH Writing Slang]]** (For the "SHWI" acronym.)
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