Max Sinister
Banned
Hrmph. A competing forum, and half of the posts are by you? Sorry, am not impressed. No link for you!
Does anyone else feel like the overall amount of AH stuff on the web has declined in the last year or two? A huge number of existing sites/scenarios/etc have dropped out of sight, and next to zero new ones have appeared...
Here's an AH board which doesn't have political correctness OR the same blue theme that every AH site has. Dark Side of The Moon forums. and if the different theme isn't enough to make you join perhaps the presence of a future history board is.
Hrmph. A competing forum, and half of the posts are by you? Sorry, am not impressed. No link for you!
Wow. A red flames theme which looks like it was designed by a 14-yr old...
Japan, officially The Great Japanese Empire (Dai Nippon Teikoku), is one of the world’s largest archipelagoes spanning 4,600 kilometers (2,900 miles) from north to south along the Asian landmass and 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) from east to west. Its total expanse is roughly equivalent to that of the United States. Japan is comprised of five major islands (and thousands smaller ones) located between the Kamchatka peninsula and Taiwan, and all along the equatorial line between Palau and the Marshall Islands. The total land area of Japan is 471,106 square kilometers (184,025 square miles) which is slightly less than the area of the state of California plus the area of the state of West Virginia.
The population of Japan in 2002 was about 130 million persons making it the world's seventh most populous nation after China, India, the United States, the Soviet Union and Indonesia.
Thanks for the link, i once found it and liked it but over time as many of these websites you know what it is about but you do not know the name of the website.Bumping this thread for posterity. Who knows how many obscure standalone AH sites have been lost in the past decade alone?
Looks like the extensive Dai Nippon Teikoku setting's Angelfire website is miraculously still in existence.
I've never actually read it in full, but it's worth checking out. Even its timeline is only one aspect of this big world-building project.
Happy to help. There's a satisfaction both to keeping the memory alive, and maybe to relive the memory again. There's some classic works of AH pre-2010s that are still around, or at least archived, that might be helpful for current projects.Thanks for the link, i once found it and liked it but over time as many of these websites you know what it is about but you do not know the name of the website.
Happy to help. There's a satisfaction both to keeping the memory alive, and maybe to relive the memory again. There's some classic works of AH pre-2010s that are still around, or at least archived, that might be helpful for current projects.
For a while now I’ve really wished this website had a culture of Rec Lists. It seems a shame how old timelines get lost and new members have to try and catch up on a canon of work when it’s never really described what is important and what’s not. To try to fill that gap, I plan to write a regular rec list of AH that I have enjoyed particularly.
To kick this off, I’m going back to the AH I read when I first got online as a pre-teen. It was a different time. My Gods. It was different. “TLIAW” was just a collection of letters, most timelines were literally time lines, following a year-a-paragraph format. There was no such thing as a vignette. Or rather, most things were vignettes.
I was obsessed. Here are some of my favourites from the time that I think hold up if you’re not a child.
An Evil British Empire -
Alison Brooks was one of the early AH writers, and is mostly famous for coining the term “Alien Space Bats”. Back in pre-2000 times she wasn’t the most prolific writer, but she was one of the silliest. I could (and probably should) link to the first story with an ASB in it. But this story, with Moriarty secretly running the British Empire, is particularly strong in my memory for some reason.
The Human Timeline -
A very 90s alternate history space opera. It has a United Federation of Planets, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton get cameos. It starts off kind of Star Treky, then it goes all Babylon5-ish. It’s epic. Parts of it don’t hold up very well, but I absolutely worshipped it at the time.
Thieves Honour
I loved Alternate History Travel Guides. The setting was a collection of worlds that had developed a way to connect parallel universes and had opened themselves up for tourism. There’s lots of good examples of what are now called vignettes, but this story about the theft of the Mona Lisa particularly stuck in my mind over the years.
What if all Americans DISAPPEARED?
A little time line where all Americans spontaneously combust. The French get insulted a bit, Monica Lewinski gets a mention for some reason. This happened a lot back then.
Going back to the archives through the Wayback Machine really does demonstrate how far we’ve come in the last decade. Most of the time lines I read avidly back then are similar in quality to ones that, today, would be considered an unpromising first attempt from any newbie to the forum. It’s also odd to see how this website goes from being a site by a guy called Ian, to being a comprehensive directory of AH with a discussion forum, to absolute domination.
I kind of miss the old ways, though I was only ever a lurker. I wrote a time line when I was eleven. I think Hitler flew a Zeppelin for the navy of Nauru. I submitted it to a website and got a very polite response from a kindly gentleman whose name I wish I could remember.
It took clicking through the site several times, but I managed to find the scenario in question: http://web.archive.org/web/20010625144811/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4123/andrew.htmFinally at long last the timeline I remembered reading about Amerindians dominating the world after an asteroid or cometary strike in Europe in the 15th century was available on Pteranodons AH page which is still there ater all this time but this timeline is not for some reason
Does anyone know who Pteranodon was and if he is on this site or another one and if some can you direct me to him as I woud love to read this timeline again and save t this time....
I cant begin to exxpress my gratitude for this.If anything you have confirmed Im not losing my mind and imagined this scenario .Thank you so muchIt took clicking through the site several times, but I managed to find the scenario in question: http://web.archive.org/web/20010625144811/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4123/andrew.htm