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  1. Have you worked Atari today?

    * “International Business Machines Corp. signed a contract today to acquire the privately-held Atari, Inc. for cash and debentures…” – New York Times, 1976 “Computer industry insiders wonder whether IBM is making a wise move. Unlike microcomputer...

  2. No UNIX?

    Unix has been one of the most influential operating systems around... so what if it never existed? I suppose one way to do this is to have Bell Labs remain in the Multics project, but there are certainly others as well... It seems like one benefit Unix had early on was that due to AT&T being...

  3. AH Challenge: Oldsmobile survives

    Something a bit different, perhaps? How could what was once the oldest American automobile marque survive to the present day? Ideally as a successful, profitable brand... it wasn't that long ago that it was killed, so there seems like there should be some potential. I don't care when the...

  4. What if Boston was an island?

    Originally, the area where the city of Boston was built was a peninsula, connected to the mainland by a narrow strip. What that narrow strip didn't exist (or was washed away, or something... I know geologic PODs early on have huge butterflies, and I'd rather not have any before the 1600s), and...

  5. Privatized PBS?

    So, I was reading this article from 1995, where for a brief time news organizations believed that "Baby Bell" Bell Atlantic Corp. would take over the US government's role in public broadcasting, and/or buy stations in Bell Atlantic's service area (note that this is before the Bell Atlantic-NYNEX...

  6. DBWI: Could Apple Computer survive to the present day?

    So, I was reading a bit about the old Apple Macintosh computer of the 1980s, and it struck me how ahead of their time Apple was compared to Microsoft or even Commodore... what do you think it would take for Apple to survive to the present day and continue to sell Macintosh computers? I'm...

  7. DBWI AH Challenge: US nukes Japan

    So, we all know that nuclear weapons have never actually been used in war... though of course, "country X nukes country Y" scenarios are common enough in AH scenarios... so let's ramp that up a notch, take two countries that have never been at war with each other in the modern age. Can you...

  8. AH Challenge: Western countries adopt Chinese script

    Your challenge is as one would expect from the title- have at least one major Western language predominantly written in Chinese script. Define "western" as being Europe, or if your POD is post-Columbian, you can include the Americas as well. Mixed alphabetic-logographic systems are permitted, as...

  9. Nintendo releases the AVS

    Originally, when Nintendo was working to bring the Famicom to the US market, the prototypes were quite different. The system, dubbed the Advanced Video System, which was more similar to the original plan for a "Video Computer" than past designs- it featured a tape storage system in addition to...

  10. Nameless Timeline

    Alright, here's a prototype of a computer industry timeline I've been working on to some extent... Note that even the early years are far from finished, I need to add in some information on more manufacturers and bulk up others... 1980 - IBM decides to continue it's then-current path relative...

  11. WI: No IBM PC?

    What if IBM never creates the PC? The PC was a radical project for IBM that went through a different process without many of the company's restrictions, so it doesn't seem too much of an issue simply to have someone up in the company say "No."... what does this mean for the future of the...

  12. Less Reasonable People's Temple

    Your challenge is to make the People's Temple of Jim Jones and Kool-aid fame even less reasonable- can it even be done?

  13. WI: More Colonies

    What if the Thirteen Colonies weren't as consolidated as in OTL? That is, colonies like the Plymouth Colony, West and East Jersey, and maybe Maine (though they likely didn't have enough people) were still separate colonies into the 1770s? What affect would this have on the Revolution, and in the...

  14. DBWI: German Politics if the CP loses the War?

    What would German politics look like had the Central Powers lost the Great War? Austria-Hungary would surely be gone (a fascinating topic on its own, considering how the Empire has lasted for nearly a thousand years all the way up to today, opening new states in that region...) so how would the...

  15. No Highways

    Well, not none at all... What if, for whatever reason, the modern concept of the limited-access expressway/freeway was never developed? Or, if it must be developed, was very rare and limited to only a few areas. Parkways and other near-freeways are allowed, but try not to go past that.

  16. AH Challenge: Save the Private Railroad

    The challenge for today is relatively simple... have the passenger rail system in the United States of America, especially in the North East, continue to be ran by private companies as much as possible, with as little abandonment as possible. Bonus if you can somehow keep the New York, New...

  17. No War of Austrian Succession

    What if Prussia had accepted the succession of Maria Theresa and not made a grab towards Silesia? What does the rest of the 1700s look like- is there still a Seven Years War? A Partition of Poland?

  18. Challenge: Thirty Years War wipes out Protestantism

    With a POD after, let's say, the Defenestration of Prague, have the Thirty Years War result in the end of European Protestantism and a renewed Catholic dominance. You may shorten or lengthen the Thirty Years War. The Catholic dominance period must last at least fifty years.

  19. DBWI: What would a Soviet-occupied Poland look like?

    What if, in WW2, the Soviets had managed to make a much larger comeback, say, Moscow and Stalingrad don't fall. While the Soviets did make a comeback OTL, I mean something much larger, and so by the time Berlin falls, it falls to a Soviet force, and so Poland and the Eastern half of Germany are...

  20. Gothic Empire

    Part I: The Gothic War The Battle of Adrianople (378) proved to be a military disaster surpassing all others for the Roman Empire. The Gothic King, Fritigern, led his forces to an overwhelming victory against the Roman Empire, sacking the city and rampaging across Macedonia. The Roman Emperor...
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