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Ask HN: Your version of an alternative history for the web and internet?
1 point by msndr on Nov 8, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
For example: say, there was no Google search. And, maybe no one else conceived of a similar idea. A simplistic example for sure, but just a starting point.


Some government prohibited any software except of FOSS and other governments have faced a choice between doing the same or declare a war to the former.

Cryptocurrency might be invented before the Internets, using radio-waves only which changes the advertisement basis of the Internets.

And one negative story: Western world lost the war and English stopped being the primary language of the Internets.


AT&T never broke up; and we're eagerly discussing the coming 9600 baud upgrade to our minitel-style terminals using 7bit ASCII.




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