alt.history.what-if

  What would the net have been like without this group?

  A newsgroup to discuss the alternate courses history
  could have taken if events had happened a different way at various
  junctures, such as, what if the South had won the Civil War by defeating
  Meade at Gettysburg and causing Lincoln to lose the election of 1864 to
  McClellan?  This is a popular theme in science fiction and fantasy, but is
  not limited to science fiction and fantasy.  There exists a mailing list
  dedicated to this subject which, among other things, has compiled quite a
  list of alternate historical themes.  

  LIST: Alternate History Stories, * of *
    An annotated bibliography of novels, stories and essays involving
      alternate histories (a.k.a. what-ifs, allohistories, uchronias
      or counterfactuals), writings in which a past event has been
      altered and its effect on history somehow described.
    <sf/alt_history/part1>
    From: altworld@panix.com (Robert B. Schmunk)
    Posted: Quarterly (16 Jan 1996 00:17:14 -0500)

  soc.history.what-if FAQ
    Frequently asked questions and answers for soc.history.what-if, a
      newsgroup which debates such questions as "What if the South won
      the Civil War", "What if there were no Internet", etc.
    <history/what-if>
    From: rbs@panix.com (Robert B. Schmunk)
    Posted: Monthly (2 Jan 1996 12:02:05 -0500)

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