Alternate History
| Web address |
AlternateHistory.com |
| Commercial? |
No |
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Type of site
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Forum |
| Registration |
Optional (required only for posting and viewing some discussion boards) |
| Available in |
English |
| Launched |
September 2000 (2000-09) |
| Current status |
Active |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. AlternateHistory.com is a web forum dedicated to the discussion of alternate history. The forum was founded in September 2000 by Ian Montgomerie, a Canadian immigrant residing in New York, as a split-off from a Usenet newsgroup. It is currently the largest English-language forum dedicated to the study of alternate history, with around 10,000 active members and over 400,000 registered users.
AlternateHistory.com is the self-described "largest gathering of alternate history fans on the internet" with over 10,000 active members.[1][2]
History of alternate history websites on the Internet
Fans of alternate history have made use of the internet from a very early point to showcase their own works and provide useful tools for those fans searching for anything alternate history, first in mailing lists and usenet groups, later in web databases and forums. The "Usenet Alternate History List" was first posted on April 11, 1991, to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf-lovers.
In May 1995, the dedicated newsgroup soc.history.what-if was created for showcasing and discussing alternate histories.[3] Its prominence declined with the general migration from unmoderated usenet to moderated web forums.
Criticisms
In more recent years, possibly in association with the ongoing cultural revolution otherwise described by its critics as the "Great Awokening", the site has been accused of censorship, which includes allegations of an increasingly progressive or politically correct bias amongst its administrators and most of its remaining userbase, including the banning of conservative-leaning users in response to the Gamergate controversy.[4] This has been attributed to an argued form of SJW convergence.[5] Due to prior controversies, and especially in response to the increasing political polarization in Western countries, the site does not allow discussions of present day politics in its main threads.
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