History AlternateHistory / WebOriginal

* The Website/YouTube channel ''WebAnimation/AlternateHistoryHub'' is entirely dedicated to coming up with realistic, highly detailed and oftentimes amusing answers to questions like "what if Germany won UsefulNotes/WorldWarI" or "what if [[UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky Trotsky]] rose to power instead of [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin Stalin]]". The channel will also commonly use a similar formula to analyze fictional settings of popular works and try to figure out how such a scenario would play in real life. Think of it like a video version of ''Blog/WhatIf'', except it's for history instead of physics.

** Personal computers were banned in 1980 [[spoiler: following the failure of [[HijackingCthulhu Operation Horned Serpent]]]], leading to technology slightly behind ours; personal cameras are low-rez and disposable, computers are very specialized machines (personal movie editor ones are quite popular) and, while social networks such as [[Website/{{Twitter}} TWTTR]] exists, bulky terminals akin to the first cell phones are required to use it.

** Literature/OhgaShrugs features a world where the UsefulNotes/PlayStation is never invented, leaving Sega and Nintendo the chief players in the video game console market to this day.

* In the [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139 original fiction]] version of ''WebOriginal/KeitAi'', the girl's strange area code isn't the only thing that's different compared to the boy's universe. In the boy's timeline, the [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Lost Decade of Japan]] never happened, the Creator/{{Nintendo}} Ultra CD exists, the Creator/{{Sony}} UsefulNotes/PlayStation and the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy don't, and the Wrestling/{{WWE}} is still the [[Wrestling/AttitudeEra WWF]].

** ''Literature/LookToTheWest'', a timeline which begins with a very minor ForWantOfANail and so far has got an imperial America, a very different SteamPunk French Revolution, and Russians and Lithuanians conquering Japan.

** ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=61430 A Prussian on the Spanish Throne]]'' starts in 1870, with Spain looking for a new King after Isabella II was kicked out of Spain. A ForWantOfANail happens: a Spanish politician decides not to tell the French Ambassador about the Government's preferred candidate for the throne, Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. With that small change, in a Prussian becomes the King of Spain and Spain modernizes really fast, becoming something very unlike the RL Spain of the time. Spain and Germany beat the USA in this timeline's Spanish-American War (called The War of the Two Oceans). Sadly defunct.

** ''Literature/AMorePersonalUnion'' by Thespitron 6000 follows up what would happen if Francis II, the sixteen-year-old king of France in 1560, were to survive an autumnal cold that [[ForWantOfANail in our history killed him]]. As a result, he stays married to Mary, Queen of Scots, and forty-five years later, France is Protestant, there's been a proto-World War, and slavery has been outlawed in English North America, which has two thriving colonies. In ''1605''.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]] is an alternate timeline in which the Foundation's most prominent site, Site-19, was never constructed [[ForWantOfANail in favor of a Site-13]]. 13 was far more expensive to maintain, and after [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton President Bob Dole]] cut off the United States' funding to the Foundation when terrorists used anomalous means to destroy the Sears Tower, the Foundation was left on the verge of financial ruin. As a result, they willingly allowed themselves to be absorbed by their [[WellIntentionedExtremist more radical rival the Global Occult Coalition]], and ended up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman All anomalies were incinerated once they stopped providing useful data]] [[FantasticRacism including the human ones]], dissenters were summarily executed which killed off many prominent researchers, and Website/TheWanderersLibrary was destroyed.

** Season 1's "Cassette #3: Insomnia, Feet" provides clues that the story is set in the early [[TheEighties Eighties]], while "Cassette #5: Focus, Nose" reveals the point of historical divergence, when it was decided that nationalism, tribalism and familial loyalty were the root causes of war and violence, to be eliminated through drastic social engineering, in the aftermath of an alternate World War II.

* Literature/{{Anathema}} is set in a world similar to our own until February 24th, 2010, when [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the Pulse]] happened. After that event, people all over the world began developing supernatural abilities.

** ''WebOriginal/ZhirinovskysRussianEmpire'': Boris Yeltsin is killed during the Soviet coup of 1991, allowing the irascible nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky to become the first leader of post-Communist Russia. His belligerence completely alters geopolitics in the Post-Cold War world.

* The Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses universe to a small extent. It mostly reflect our own world but their are small divergances such as Super Mecha Death Christ killing Hitler a year early.

** The Statue of Progress, a sister statue to Lady Liberty, was built instead of the Port Said Lighthouse.

** ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies'' by {{Tropers/Meshakhad}} also features an alternate timeline where a socialist revolution occurred in the United States in the late 1910s, with the point of divergence being several major schisms in the American socialist and labour movements being averted by the accidental death of anarchist assassin Harry Orchard.

* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'': [[https://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/rpc-612 RPC-612]] which is the statues from alternate timelines creep into mainline reality and change to fit the one they came from. Examples:

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]] is an alternate timeline in which the Foundation's most prominent site, Site-19, was never constructed [[ForWantOfANail in favor of a Site-13]]. 13 was far more expensive to maintain, and after [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton President Bob Dole]] cut off the United States' funding to the Foundation when terrorists used anomalous means to destroy the Sears Tower, the Foundation was left on the verge of financial ruin. As a result, they willingly allowed themselves to be absorbed by their [[WellIntentionedExtremist more radical rival the Global Occult Coalition]], and ended up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman All anomalies were incinerated once they stopped providing useful data]] [[FantasticRacism including the human ones]], dissenters were summarily executed which killed off many prominent researchers, and Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary was destroyed.

** ''Literature/{{Reds}}!'', a series by Aelita, depicts an alternate history in which President UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley was not assassinated, and in the resulting political climate (which marginalized Progressive reformers due to UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt never becoming president), socialism becomes much more popular in the United States. After a much more brutal UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (made more brutal, ironically, by the well-meaning attempts of internationalists like William Howard Taft to build stable international alliances), the American populace is radicalized and heavily divided, a powder keg ready to explode, until the Great Depression sparks a revolution in the United States.