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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Email predates the Web - for mass takeup see AOL and freeserve etc. The issue I have is that I lived through this and still use things. I never have used email via the web and always use a mail program. It still feels to me like the first emails in 1978. A subject, to and from and then the...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Why does this look like AH? I had a university email address in 1978 and it was not that new. ARPANET and/or X25 connected many universities Compuserve was available to the public in 1979
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    AH came up on a stack exchange site https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31847/how-much-faster-are-binaries-produced-by-modern-compilers-vs-1980s-compilers-vs
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    There have been later publicity runninghs of steam engines actually underground https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21004315 Wikipedia has an article on that loco. And the detailed last runnings in a pdf from LURS (London Underground Railway Society)
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    British Empire appropriating native symbols. For AH purposes they should have appropriated another Indian symbol - the swastika.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Why is Iceland a member?
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Yes and no. For realistic AH yes For ASB and ISOT then not necessarily e.g. Guns of the South
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    True that the writer can push the scale. But that does not mean that they agree that their push is one they would agree with. A good writer like a good debator can take up views they disagree with.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Ukraine war leads France to restore gunpowder production https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-war-leads-france-restore-gunpowder-production-2025-03-21/ I would guess there is a translation error here but having gunpowder today!
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I am jusr rereadinbg N.A.M. Roger "The Safeguard of the Seas" He says that pre-Norman England controlled the British Isles as they had and knew how to use a Navy. The Normans and Plantagenets except for Henry V did not and so had to suffer many raids from French backed vessels, had to make...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    You might want to check the entry for BA - I think you have forgotten to edit it all.
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    Plus for the British the Munich Air Disaster and the Manchester United football team. Although there were survivors
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    Forums like this are very very small part of the internet. Facebook, Instagram and professional websites are the vast majority and they have legal teams to deal with this. (and you can argue that their aim (at least Meta's) is to close down small fora
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    It would be interesting how they picked out SeaLion - perhaps we have a New Scientist journalist reading this forum.
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Doesn't that also imply France is neutral - as if you have US UK and soviet spheres the French will want some too - and the Ruhr has been their target for centuries.
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    How do you know it is not hard? What are the details of all the things you have to do?
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    It is getting more press New Scientist behind a paywall https://www.newscientist.com/article/2461213-hundreds-of-small-websites-may-shut-down-due-to-uks-online-safety-act/ The main text is from the LFGSS which is the site which first gave reasons but other are quoted and Sealion Press is...
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    It is just the technical and political forums that will notice the issue and get worried.
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    It went down for much of the day yesterday as well.
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    Yes it does effect Discord but Discord is probably organised enough so that it deals with inappropriate posts quite quickly although to US standards.
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