Alternate Timelines

All Scenarios

Browse all alternate history scenarios across different time periods and regions.

What If The International Debt Crisis of The 1980s Never Occurred?

Exploring the alternate timeline where developing nations avoided the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s, potentially transforming global economic development and North-South relations for decades to come.

What If The International Monetary Fund Was Never Formed?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference failed to establish the IMF, fundamentally altering the post-WWII economic order and global financial stability mechanisms.

What If The International Space Station Was Never Built?

Exploring the alternate timeline where international cooperation in space collapsed after the Cold War, preventing the construction of humanity's most ambitious orbital laboratory and permanently altering the trajectory of human spaceflight.

What If The Internet Was Never Created?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the technologies that led to the internet never converged, dramatically altering the development of global communications, economy, and society in the digital age.

What If The Internet Was Never Invented?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the global network of interconnected computers never materialized, radically altering technological development, communication, commerce, and social interaction in the modern world.

What If The Interstate Highway System Took a Different Form?

Exploring the alternate timeline where America's Interstate Highway System followed a different design philosophy, dramatically altering the nation's transportation infrastructure, urban development, and cultural landscape.