Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'information technology'

Browse all alternate history scenarios about 'information technology'.

What If The World Wide Web Was Never Created?

Exploring the alternate timeline where Tim Berners-Lee never developed the World Wide Web, dramatically altering the evolution of digital communication, information sharing, and global connectivity in the modern era.

What If Y2K Actually Caused a Global Computer Meltdown?

Exploring how society, technology, and global development would have been transformed if the Year 2000 bug had triggered the widespread technological failures that many feared.

What If the Printing Press Was Never Invented?

Exploring how European and world history would have unfolded if Gutenberg's printing press had never been invented, fundamentally altering the spread of knowledge, religious reform, and scientific progress.

What If the Inca Quipu System Evolved Into Writing?

Exploring how Andean civilization might have developed if the Inca record-keeping system of knotted cords had evolved into a full writing system, potentially enabling more complex administration and knowledge preservation.