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Recent content by Callan

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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    The other AH internet idea I’ve toyed with on and off is an ATL where there are multiple self-contained and regionally specific informational systems (an American one, a European one, a Chinese / Japanese one, smaller ones based out of India and Ethiopia etc) where a user of one can only connect...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    The universe that previous post belongs to is the same one as a bunch of other lists / wiki boxes / vignettes / content I’ve done set in the same ATL, where the Minitel emerges as the prime information system. Which has a lot of butterflies, re a more centralized internet, much more state...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Well, yes, that’s what I was getting at. The common historiography of the internet is almost exclusively focused on the World Wide Web and often implies that a lot of the components of electronic communication and social media are products of that. And there’s a truth to that - the rise of the...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    These bullet points from the Wikipedia page for the history of emails: This is because of course emails long predated the World Wide Web and other publicly available internet-like services, just before then they were used by self-contained computer networks owned by militaries, scientific...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Reading about the early history of the internet is ripe for AH potential partly because of how many things we think as inevitable and universal only properly emerged / standardized relatively recently. And so because of how much of what we consider to be “the internet” predates the World Wide...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    The one I always have in my back pocket is the email domain “@gpo.uk” (It’s probably still called email because the terms “Electronic Mail” and “E-Mail” originate in the seventies)
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    teletel/rosetta/reference/english/list_of_secretaries_of_state_of_the_united_states 55. 1969-1973: George Ball (Lyndon Johnson / Hubert Humphrey) 56. 1973-1976: Richard Nixon (John Connally) 57. 1976-1979: Elliot Richardson (John Connally) 58: 1979-1981: John N. Irwin (John Connally) 59...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    That brings up another question - what does a stronger position for Roosevelt look like? OTL the court packing plan failed and nearly broke his presidency when he attempted it in 1937, just after he had won a crushing landslide re-election and was at the height of his (peacetime) political powers.
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    OTL the plan backfired because of opposition within the Democratic Party. A lot of conservatives and political allies who had previously been very loyal to Roosevelt - including no less than the sitting Vice President - felt that this was gross overreach and it came fairly close to splitting the...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    To answer the question posed by OP, I think a world where the court packing plan goes through is probably a world where a Roosevelt doesn’t run in 1940 and a Republican succeeds him. Given that attempting it nearly broke his presidency and split his party OTL.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I can’t decide if Dean as deBlasio is a bit off-base or absolutely brilliant
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Mark Carney is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player, who has since 2024 been the general manager of the Edmonton Oilers. Born in the Northwest Territories and raised in Edmonton, his family was heavily involved in politics. His father, James Carney, served as a Liberal member of...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    This is great. I love implied history from the electoral map and the headlines.# Are all of the parties having "x & y" names supposed to denote something, or influenced from an OTL country or political system?
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Thinking of revising this, and musing about this AH development. OTL during the planning stages of the Channel Tunnel project in the late 1960s/early 1970s, British rail shortlisted eleven different sites for a terminus for cross-channel trains somewhere around London. Jago Hazzard has a good...
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    Alternate Wikibox Thread

    Yeah all of the relationships I mentioned in this are ones he had OTL, just playing out a bit differently. Because he’s an NDP MP he definitely isn’t - as in OTL - getting introduced to the 18 year old daughter of a Liberal cabinet minister and marrying her three years later but it would make...
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