New Era (Alternate History) Wiki

**Welcome to the New Era (Alternate History) Wiki!**
It is a timeline where thw world resets after a chaotic Big Rip and one person who was in charge of time created a new Big Bang and restarted everything.

**New Era** is a project which combines the genres of alternate history and conworlds. It is a mix of OTL, Differently, PickTwoNames1997's timeline, and the events of Golden Kamuy. It is an alternate timeline with several points of divergence (PoDs), since ancient times up to the 21st century. One focus is the continuation of several states and cultures that came to an end in our timeline: Many countries resist foreign invasions that would change everything, others never lose land that they would lose, and others expand their territory. Other differences include World War II never happening, Romania remaining a Communist country, Alaska is a part of the Confederate States, a distinct Cold War starting and ending earlier, Islamic terrorism never arising and Hitler becoming a thriving philosopher and mystic instead of a dictator (see more differences below).

## Maps (present day)

*See also: Historical Maps*

Coming Soon

## Timeline

A timeline with a brief description of some main PoDs.

### Ancient and medieval history

* **Prehistory**: Paleo-Americans develop a belief that the mastodon is a sacred animal, which decreases its hunting and eventually results in its survival into recorded history.
* **33 BC**: Having developed a much more modernized military and better relations, Ptolemaic Egypt deters the Roman plans of invasion. The later Christian influence in the country is smaller and the traditional religion is more prevalent.
	+ Another effect is that the Library of Alexandria is not destroyed and remains a center of wisdom until the Middle Ages.
* **610**: Islam doesn't gain as much leverage as it does in OTL and gains a smaller number of supporters. The religion gets to dominate the Arabian peninsula but is not able to raise an army to conquer other lands successfully. However, later denominations of Islam called Alawite and Salehiyya enter Africa.
* **642**: Eastern Roman and Egypt resist Arab invasions with an alliance. The Rashidun Caliphate, and consequently Islam, does not expand beyond the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Over the centuries, however, the Arabs exert an economic dominance over Persia and Europe, particularly Iberia, which also realizes cultural exchange with the Christian Berbers of northern Africa.
	+ Also, instead of an Islamic Golden Age, there is an Egyptian Golden Age, with the Library of Alexandria becoming this timeline's equivalent to the House of Wisdom in OTL. Many scientific terms that in OTL are from Arabic origin (like chemistry, algebra, etc.) are instead of Egyptian origin.
* **681**: A remnant of the Roman province of Mauretania, Berber tribes take over the province and form the Berber Kingdom, taking the name Mauretania.
* **700**: The Eastern Roman province of Carthāgō declares independence from Eastern Roman. Although not Punic in any way, the new nation of Carthage adopts many aspects of Punic life, including emblems.
* **1272**: With a larger and stronger army, Eastern Roman resists the invasion by Charles I of Anjou, which would have formed Albania.
* **1352**: The Zoroastrian-Christian conflicts start with the Zoroastrian Seljuk army threatening Constantinople. After pleading with the Roman Catholic church, a number of armies (crusades) are sent to relieve the attacks. These conflicts between Zoroastrian and Christian nations go on for over 150 years.
* **1365**: After resisting centuries of raids by Slavic peoples, Macedonia is never conquered and remains part of Eastern Roman.
* **1452–53**: The Battle of Constantinople during the winter is a turning point in favor of Christians in the Zoroastrian-Christian conflicts.
* **1498**: Leonardo da Vinci is murdered before he begins to paint the Mona Lisa.

### 16th to 18th centuries

* **1502**: The end of the Zoroastrian-Christian conflicts marks the traditional end of the Middle Ages. Due to deteriorating relations with Eastern Roman and the Silk Road being dominated by Zoroastrians, Western European powers still search alternate routes to Asia.
* **1503:** The Duchy of Austria proclaims itself to be the Kingdom of Austria.
* **1516**: Egypt is conquered by an expansionist Second Sassanid Empire.
* **1531:** Austria and Hungary go to war with each other, resulting in the Habsburgs ruling Hungary and all the latter country's possessions.
* **1601:** Byzantine explorer Eutropius Lascaris reaches the southern part of the Australian continent and claims it as part of the Byzantine Empire. European colonization of Australia officially begins.
* **1616:** William Shakespeare doesn't die and subsequently comes out of retirement after three years. He writes ten more plays before dying in 1626.
* **1689-1690(1691)**: Riot of Bucharest, military conflicts in Wallachia against Habsburgs' monarchy
* **1690-1712(1715)** -"War of independence of Moldova"
* **1692**: The Salem witch trials come to an abrupt end after landowner John Proctor detonates eight gunpowder barrels under the floorboards of the courthouse.
* **1712**: After centuries of political schism, the Second Sassanid Empire splits in two, forming the Empire of West Persia and the Afghan Kingdom of Persia (East Persia).
* **1783:** Тhe emergence of an idea of the Roman revolution. Idea of Dacia.
* **1792**:
	+ After a revolutionary war, Haiti gains independence with Toussaint L'ouverture as the Emperor of Haiti. The new state controls all of the island of Hispaniola.
	+ An Orleanist coup in France leads to the establishment of the constitutional monarchy.

### 19th century

* **1803:** Napoleon leads a coup against the Orleanist monarch, proclaiming the French Empire.
* **1814:** Napoleon remains in Elba.
* **1815:**
	+ The Italian Confederation is created by the Austrian Empire.
	+ The Republic of Venice is restored by Austria after pressure from its allies.
* **1828**: Brazil wins the Cisplatine War.
* **1857**: The Taiping rebellion ends.
* **1857-1859**: The Sepoy Mutiny occurs. The Mughal Dynasty, the rulers of the Sublime State of Delhi, are overthrown and they and their vassal kingdom the Kingdom of Berar become Princely States of the British Raj.
* **1861-63**: The U.S. is defeated by the South. The Confederate States of America are recognized as an independent country.
* **1864**: Empress Cixi dies of tuberculosis, after which China undergoes a period of modernization and westernization, becoming a constitutional monarchy in the process. However this does not save the Qing Dynasty's reputation as rulers of the Han Chinese population.
* **1867**: Alaska is not purchased by the U.S. An earlier offer to the Prince of Liechtenstein is accepted, but the Prince only buys the island of Johann (OTL: Prince of Wales Island), so the country of Johannia is formed and the rest of Alaska was brought by the Confederate States causing the country to not secede to the US and remain a nation thanks to Russia.
* **1876**: German chemist and biologist Gregor Mendel invents the first immortalized human cell line out of one of his patient's cells, proving heavily influential in medical research and paving the way for more advancements.
* **1882**: British forces invade Sassanid Egypt and Syria and liberate the two countries, which become free states once again. The ancient Hasmonean Dynasty takes over Syria and rule it to this day.
* **1883**: Bolivia wins the War of the Pacific.
* **1885:** Britain wins the Third Anglo-Burmese War and conquers all of Burma. Thibaw Min is ousted and replaced by his paternal nephew born from his half-brother Prince Nyaungyan who rules Burma as a Princely State of Britain.
* **1889**: Instead of a full-republican takeover, a failed Republican Insurrection results in the Brazilian monarchy never being abolished.
* **Late 19th century**: China loses Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Macau, but later regains Xinjiang.

### 20th century

* **1900s**: Due to the Moroccan Crisis never happening, hostile relations in OTL between France and Germany never happen, which results in the peaceful transition of Alsace-Lorraine in 1909 from Germany to France.
* **1910**:
	+ The Portuguese monarchy is not abolished.
	+ Japan does invade Korea except for the southern parts of Korea; a modernized China defends Southern Korea from Japan, so the Korean Empire survives.
	+ The RMS *Lusitania* sinks by a rouge wave which caused the ship to do a V-Break, Killing 1,701 people.
* **1911**: The RMS *Olympic* sinks after colliding with a warship. Approximately 1,864 people die.
* **1912**:
	+ The Manchu Qing dynasty in China is replaced by the ethnic Han Chinese Xian dynasty.
	+ The RMS *Titanic* does not sink thanks to improved safety measures learned the year before.
* **1914**: Byzantine heir George, Prince of Constantinople is killed by a Serbian nationalist. A diplomatic crisis breaks out between Eastern Roman and Serbia, which set the dominoes to the Great War. Austria-Hungary (later known as Danubia) does not join the Great War. Instead, it cedes territory to neighboring nations through agreements.
* **1918**:
	+ After the end of the Great War, Germany becomes a democratic constitutional monarchy (instead of a republic) and gives independence to all its colonies.
	+ The three Baltic nations (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) each achieve a brief independence from the Russian Empire before being annexed by the Soviet Union four years later.

* **1920s**: The Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula rebel against the British Empire, engage in a civil war and form a unified and independent Islamic nation.
* **1921**: Mongolia (with Inner Mongolia) officially becomes independent from China after almost a decade-long War of Independence.
* **1924**: East Persia falls to a socialist regime, which lasts until 1975.
* **1926**:
	+ With Britain's defeat in the Anglo-American War, Quebec, Israel and other states formerly controlled by the British become independent.
	+ The imperial democracy in China collapses. Independence movements in Tibet and the Uyghur regions start.
* **1927**: British decolonization in India commences. Princely States of the British are abolished as the Azad Hind turns a majority of India into republics while princely states whom the Azad Hind fails to depose become independent kingdoms.
* **1928**: The Kingdom of Tibet, the First East Turkestan Republic, the Hainan Clique, and the Northern Qing (later known as Manchuria) break free from China, establishing their independent nations.

* **1930s**: Instead of a Nazi party, a Pan-Germanic Party, which uses a planned language called Teedish, rises in Germany. Instead of political and military power, Hitler seeks the cultural integration of Germanic countries and initiates a cultural movement. Anton Drexler and Heinrich Himmler are involved. Hitler becomes a philosopher and starts a movement called Hitlerism. He spreads Vanatru, a form of Nordic neopaganism, throughout the Germanic world.
* **1931**: Japan's monarchy is ousted by communists who despised the monarchy for Japan's humiliating defeats to China and the US. The Communist Regime rules all the way to 1975.
* **1933**: Artificial intelligence is created two decades earlier in England, as opposed to during the 1950s in the United States. Its groundbreaking abilities are demonstrated in a short called *The Abilities And Benefits of Artificial Intelligence* through a game of chess with Albert Einstein. The technology is successful, and is mainly used in factories and other places of work as automated machines (except for military equipment and other pieces of technology) into present day, not becoming mainstream until the 80s and 90s with the introduction of AI generated text and, eventually, imagery in the early-2000s and chatbots (like Cleverbot) in the mid-2000s. In other words, artificial intelligence is slightly more advanced, but still suffers from the same controversy and issues in this piece technology's modern era, during the 2000s and 2010s.
* **1935**: In a groundbreaking medical discovery, 22-year old Soviet virologist Viktor Zhdanov manages to find an experimental dose to treat, and effectively cure intestinal cancer.
* **1937**: Amelia Earhart successfully circumnavigates the globe and never winds up dead in the Pacific Ocean at the young age of 39. Unfortunately, Amelia Earhart would be forced to retire from aviation in 1941, after a serious and unexpected explosion occures while grounded in Texas to repair her Lockheed Model 10 Electra's left propeller. The accident seriously damages both her eyes for a brief period of time and leads to the near removal of her eyes before signs of recovery are miraculously shown, being treated to an extent at a hospital nearby. While recovering for a five years as a stay-at-home mother, Earhart has two children and lives in San Francisco as a lawyer, where many still praise and remember her mark on history, all the way up until her passing at the advanced age of 105 in 2002 of old age, mostly taking everything slow paced in her later years and making an appropriate number of public appearances for charity events, exhibit openings in her honor and other events.
* **1940**: Germany declares war on Poland to get access to Danzig. Since this violates the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, Italy, and France interfere. This Polish-German War shapes both countries' today borders and Konigsburg becomes part of Poland.
	+ **1941**: Italy fights a war against a coalition of Britain, France, Egypt and Eastern Roman, losing all its colonial possessions. Despite the loss of a war, the Italian monarchy is retained.
	+ **1947**: After tensions between Romania and the Soviet Union, the latter country invades and establishes a puppet state.
* **1948**: Burma gains independence and becomes a republic.
* **1951**:
	+ An East Persian-planned republican revolution in West Persia fails, turning the tide of the Cold War, with West Persia siding with America.
	+ The Peruvian Communist Insurrection starts, which is the second-most important war that resulted in the fall of the socialist bloc.
* **1955**:
	+ A violent Jamaican Revolution results in the full independence of Jamaica under a one-party Marxist-Leninist state. To this day, Jamaica is the only communist nation remaining in the world.
	+ The Polynesian Union is formed.
* **1960**: Motivated by the Jamaican revolution in 1955 that only increased violence in the western African region, the Igbo people finally get their independence and name their newly founded country Biafra.
* **1961**:
	+ Due to the Peruvian Communist Insurrection, the war triggers the first attempt of a nuclear explosion. DEFCON is raised to 2 for the first time ever.
	+ Ringo Starr doesn't leave the Hurricanes, remaining a prominent drummer in the band.
* **1965**: Instead of a republic, Singapore is expelled from Malaysia as a monarchy.
* **1966**: Tensions rise between the African nations of Biafra and Sokoto and they engage in border skirmishes.
* **1967**:
	+ After months of tension between the two nations, hostilities break out between Biafra and Sokoto, with Sokoto militia men crossing over the Biafran border, and Biafra responding with regular army units which open's fire on the Sokoto militias, leading to high casualties and breaks out into full-scale war.
	+ Ringo Starr dies while the Hurricanes are touring the United States.
* **1968**: Martin Luther King Jr. doesn't get assassinated. Instead, it was Jesse Jackson who died after he took the bullet for him.
* **1970**: During the Luna 17 space mission, module Soyuz-VX successfully lands on the Moon. Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky and Vladimir Shatalov become the first humans to step on another astronomical body. The ENAASA's (European-North American Aeronautics and Space Administration, comprising of Canada, America and some European countries) Sea Dragon 4, which is originally intended to reach the Moon first, is delayed by three months and is sent back to the shores of Cornwall to HMNB Devonport for repairs, eventually launching on the night of 13 March 1970 with a three man crew which consisted of the following: Buzz Aldrin (1930-present), John Hemming (1929-2008) and Roger Chaffee (1935-2018). America and their partner countries would be beaten to Mars four years later in 1974 (this time by the Germans), with America landing there in 1975.
* **1973**:
	+ South Vietnam wins the Vietnam War with help from China. Vietnam is united under the Republic of Vietnam.
	+ AC/DC never forms since the Young brothers don't go to Australia (in this timeline known as Swania) due to altered living conditions in their native Scotland, and most of their songs never exist or are completely different songs from other groups, with an entirely different sound and alternate lyrics. Prime examples of AC/DC songs being written by other bands include the Black Fist's "Black" (Back in Black in our timeline) from 1990 and Metallica's "Thunderstruck" from 1984, all of which have alternate lyrics and an alternate sound depending on the genre of the band or artist. The same things go for the songs by the Gorillaz, who never meet in the early 90s, with "Ghost Train" being a Willie Nelson song (country and jazz) from 1992, ''Feel Good Inc.'' being an Oasis song (Britpop) from 1997 and "Clint Eastwood" being an N.W.A. song (West Coast hip-hop) from 2002.
* **1974**:
	+ The Abyssinian Empire is not abolished due to the steady collapse of communism.
	+ Many Eastern European communist regimes are overthrown by people's liberation armies. The interim republics of Dacia, Bulgaria, and Serbia restore their monarchies after referendums.
	+ The Germanic League lands a man on Mars (four years after a manned Lunar landing) for an international project called I.G.M.M.E. (International Germanic Manned Mars Expedition), which has already launched temporary components from South America from 1971-1973 and lands a crew of two Italians, one Russian, two Britons and two Germans. A 25 year old named Jürgen Stefan becomes the first human in history being to ever set foot on Mars. The Soviet N-1-MEV (Martian Excursion Vehicle) module carrying the crew of seven lands successfully on the surface.
	+ The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lausanne, Switzerland rather than in 1956.
* **1975**: The Moldovan Civil War starts.
* **1976**: After nine grueling and bloody years of war, a ceasefire is declared between Biafra and Sokoto, ending the Niger Border War. A peace referendum is held in Thebes, Egypt by the League of Nations, with both sides declaring themselves as victor, even though most see Biafra as the victor, seeing that they pushed the Sokoto militias back, crossed the Sokoto border and captured towns and villages, and were 32 km from the capital.
* **1977**: The Confederate Hurricane Center merges with the National Hurricane Agency of the USA, which starts the Atlantic hurricane naming scheme 27 years later than in OTL.
* **1980**: John Lennon is not killed outside of the Dakota in New York City, as Mark David Chapman had been institutionalized days earlier after making a similar but unsuccessful attempt on Janis Joplin's life.
* **1981**: A large, German-led musical revolution akin to the British Invasion takes place in the Western world, having a substantial influence on the development of modern music.
* **1982**:
	+ The Soviet Union collapses, after which Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan do not become independent republics, but autonomous republics within Russia. Borders in Central Asia are determined by geographical lines, not artificial borders.
	+ Cliff Burton never joins Metallica and remains a member of Trauma, as they never appear at one of his band's shows and decide to keep Ron McGovney. The two groups become rivals for fourteen years after some conflict having to do with the subjects of plagiarism and popularity. Trauma becomes a legendary and memorable death metal and Confederate metal band behind trash bands Metallica. Trauma never decides to go on a hiatus in 1985 and eventually become inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jason Newsted is recruited to join Trauma in 1990, the group drifting towards death metal and the Southern music genre known as Confederate metal. Cliff and Jason create the record label Trauma Records in early 1994 after the major success of their 1993 album *Awakening*, as a way to further compete with Metallica after releasing *Countdown to Extinction* in 1992, produced by James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine of Megadeth.
* **1988**: Matt Groening's The Simpsons is picked up to be a television series a year earlier and is still animated by Klasky-Csupo (who done some animation work for the Tracy Ullman shorts along side Matt), and is aired on Fox in October of 1988. However, the show doesn't have the same effect it had on pop culture in real life, and is forced into cancelation after it begins to decline in popularity and concludes due to both lower ratings than before and creative control. The show garners the pop culture status it should've received by the mid-90s, with multiple attempts to revive *The Simpsons* being scrapped. Also, because of the series' rough rise to the top by the 90s, *Futurama* is never created nor considered a series.
* **1991**: The Moldovan Civil War comes to an end. King Michael I becomes the Head of State of Moldova.
* **1994**: Ayrton Senna does not have his accident at the San Marino Grand Prix and goes on to become the third driver to reach 5 titles in Formula.
* **1995**: Selena is not killed in Texas as Yolanda Saldívar turned the gun on herself.
* **1996**: The Zoroastrian terrorist group Faherohar takes over East Persia and establishes the first Faherohar regime.

### 21st century

* **2000**:
	+ Since Chris Farley doesn't pass away in 1997, the film *Shrek* (whose title retains the book's original exclamation: *Shrek!*) is released a year earlier in 2000 to mixed praise from critics.
	+ Justin Pierce doesn't commit suicide and eventually becomes popular after playing Chad Channing in the Nirvana biopic *Come As You Are*, retiring from acting in 2011 and becoming a skater and a sponsor for Supreme.

* **2001**:
	+ Since Islamic terrorism never emerges, 9/11 does not happen. The World Trade Center is never attacked and still exists to this day.
	+ The Faherohar is defeated in East Persia.
	+ George Harrison does not die from cancer, having avoided a stabbing attack two years earlier that brought about its return.
* **2002**: East Timor (Timor-Leste) does not get independence from Malaysia (OTL: Indonesia).
* **2003**: Steve Jobs agrees to be operated and survives his cancer.
* **2005**: Joe Ranft never parishes in a car accident and continues to work in the animation business.
* **2008**:
	+ The monarchy of Nepal is not abolished.
	+ Bhutan remains an absolute monarchy.
	+ The 2008 Rice Riots in China leave their economy in ruins.
* **2011**: The famous American rock band Nirvana retires as a group and continues work on their own projects after 24 years, as Kurt Cobain never meets Courtney Love nor commits suicide in 1994, rather taking his time in rehab and struggling but not losing hope again.
* **2012**:
	+ In the luckiest incident in maritime history, the Costa Concordia runs into rocks off the coast of Island of Giglio but does not sink and sails to Genoa.
	+ Seth Rogen is elected to the 11th seat of the House of Commons, never becoming an actor and comedian in the 90s. He is mainly focused on supporting poor Jewish households in Canada and working from home to 3D print fidgets for his business, Trinkit, founded in 2019.
* **2013**: Instead of creating videos, Razzle is a punk rock band formed in 2013.
* **2014**:
	+ After a successful referendum, Scotland becomes independent. A second referendum later decides to turn its form of government into a republic.
	+ Kenya enters a state of civil war.
* **2015**: The last member of the Himmeldorf experiment, Wolfgang Oppenheimer, passes away of Alzheimers disease on Christmas Eve at 110 years of age, having had a healthy vegetable/plant based diet since moving to Canada in 1970, becoming an author and residing in a farmhouse the rest of his days.
* **2016**: Malaysia votes to leave the Australian Union.
* **2017**: The 2017 hantavirus pandemic affects much of the world.
* **2020**: Since China is not a dictatorship and did not censor early information about the disease, the COVID-19 pandemic does not happen.
* **2021**:
	+ The Kenyan Civil War comes to an end with the ruling government being overthrown.
	+ After a referendum, Moldova is officially reunited with Dacia.
	+ The Faherohar fully takes over East Persia again.
* **2022**: The Middle Eastern War and Great African War begin.
* **2023**: The Great African War ends. The Indian Union is replaced by a federalized Indian Confederation, marking the first time in nearly 100 years that a unified Indian state exists. This rejoices the Indian populace, resulting in a Renaissance-styled evolution for the nation.

## Other major differences in the modern world

* The current world is much more polycentric. There are multiple great powers everywhere instead of one or two world superpowers.
* Since the Space Race is more intense and lasts until 1983, spacefaring and astronomy are more advanced by the late 1960s. We know slightly more about the universe and our spaceships and astronauts can go farther, colonizing the Moon by 1981 and Mars and its two moons by 2023, after years of constant research and visits since 1974.
* Constitutional monarchies are more prevalent and many consider it a model system. Also many monarchies continue to practice male preference or agnatic succession.
* Outside of the United States and a few other nations, the world is more conservative with a strong emphasis on culture, religion, family, national identity and innovation. A majority of people on the planet belong to a religion as a result.
* Since Nazism never emerges, the Swastika is a commonplace symbol, widely used by companies, organizations, etc.
* Also because of Nazism's absence, many racialist and eugenic worldviews persist in philosophy and politics with much less judgement. They compete with opposing egalitarian theories, among others. The world has a plethora of different ideologies and worldviews, which began to grow particularly after the Himmeldorf experiment.
* Without 9/11 and Islamic terrorism, Islam is not a stigmatized religion in the West. Due to its much smaller prevalence, however, it is seen as a distant and rather unfamiliar Abrahamic religion. Western stigma is more towards Zoroastrians instead, but not to the same point of OTL stigma towards Islam.
* People who are still alive or survive longer include:
	+ Chris Farley
	+ Steve Jobs
	+ Bruce Lee
	+ James Dean
	+ Robin Williams
	+ Amelia Earhart
	+ Marilyn Monroe
	+ Kurt Cobain
	+ Ayrton Senna
	+ Heath Ledger
	+ Eddie Cochran
	+ Justin Pierce
	+ Others
* Linux is the most widely used desktop operating system instead of Microsoft Windows, which was defeated in the "OS wars" of the 1990s.
* Web browsers are different. Netscape maintains its dominance over the web browser market to the present day, as Internet Explorer will never gain the popularity it had in the late 90s and early 2000s as it did in OTL as Microsoft lost the OS Wars, which means that Firefox wouldn't exist either. Microsoft Edge will also never exist as it is the successor to Internet Explorer in OTL. Google Chrome will never exist either, as Google is purchased by Yahoo!.
* Video games are different. The PlayStation, for example, is a joint creation of Nintendo and Sony. Another example of the video game world here is the Grand Theft Auto franchise having a few more games in the series and a few additions (Grand Theft Auto's Biscayne, III and San Andreas) on the PS2 and original Xbox having better graphics and a slower paced development time because of this, having better sound quality, larger in-game maps and improved character movements.
* Certain individuals such as Peter Dinklage (dwarfism in OTL), Stevie Wonder (blindness in OTL) and others do not suffer with the physical or mental disorders they have in OTL. A side from disabilities, certain celebrities don't change their physical looks, an example of this being Sylvester Stallone, who never suffers facial nerve damage nor does he have plastic surgery procedures.
* Grunge remains relevant until 2007-2008 (even though it is already obscure at that point and ages rather poorly around 2004 or 2005, in favor of alternative rock and other genres) with Kurt Cobain, Stone Sour and Nirvana still being around longer than in our universe. Aside from that, rap remains underground until the release of N.W.A.'s 8th and last album *Order, Order* in 2002. Most rappers are pursuing alternate career paths for multiple reasons, thus leading to rap remaining an underground genre. Aside from that, Tupac and Biggie, though, are one of the few mainstream rap/hip-hop artists, since rock and country are still the top genres until the 2000s and 2010s. Another reason for this is the survival of grunge music.
* Almost every Indianapolis 500 winner is different than in our world. Drivers such as Marco Andretti and Oriol Servia become Indianapolis 500 winners.
* Names otherwise used in our world for television brands, musical groups, or other forms of entertainment are given to different subjects. For example, Bon Jovi is a popular Balkan salad, whereas Pink Floyd is a rare, tinted magma.
* Formula One is relatively different with Michael Schumacher winning only 1 title (2001) and Lewis Hamilton never becoming an F1 driver. Drivers such Stirling Moss, Daniel Ricciardo and Felipe Massa are champions while drivers such as Fernando Alonso have more titles.
* YouTube is created in 2005, but only lasts a year after being bought by Yahoo! and is merged into Screeno. With YouTube bought and merged, sites like GoFish, GoAnimate (with censorship rules put in place) and Vimeo take the site's place, with sites like College Humor failing to grow and receiving a lack of support from those who visit these websites, in favor of the sites listed and Screeno, who are the most popular and most used. Most YouTubers follow alternate career paths, while most thrive on Vimeo, Screeno and GoFish. In this timeline, Cupquake is a voice actress, Jaiden Animations is the creator of Sony's video game series, Def Com, and PewDiePie plays for the NBA on the Celtics team, starting to play for the NBA in 2008, having an infamous feud with LeBron James of the Cavaliers. Because Felix Kjellberg/PewDiePie is a player for the NBA and rivals until 2018, the league is different throughout the late-2000s and the 2010s through advertising, video game cover stars, draft picks and so on. Also, Eric Fournier is still a musician and continues to work with his band the Blood Farmers (they are able to achieve fame, and they aren't known as a local act like in our timeline since they never break up in the 80s), never going on to create Shaye Saint John and going on to be popular (also, he is still an alcoholic and has health issues related to his drinking, the reason why he passed away in real life in the year of 2010, minus the part where he's suffering with actual depression and is abusing certain substances, which he didn't do since his music career thankfully never took off and he focused more on his art).
* Computing is slightly (not too advanced) different than in the OTL, as artificial intelligence is invented two decades earlier in 1933. Because of this, this revolutionary technology becomes mainstream in the 1980s with the invention of AI generated text. Along with this advancement, image and audio generating technology is introduced in the 2000s and 2010s, with self-driving cars being introduced as early as 2004. By 2007, robots are used by businesses such as Walmart, Target and Blockbuster, while a small percentage of robots are used for sex. Despite this, most technological advances remain the same (these being the creation of the desktop in the mid-70s, the laptop in the mid-80s, the HD television in the late-90s and so on). Some unreleased technologies, such as Samsung Smart Window and Columbia Cycada get released to the public, and other technologies never get released.

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