What if the personal computer had gone differently?

A computer cheap and small enough to sit on a desk at home, sold to anyone.

If it had gone differently: Computers stay institutional machines; there is no home computing, no software industry, no user base for a web.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the personal computer. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1991The World Wide Web. Without it, Networked computers stay the preserve of universities and corporations; there is no open web for anyone to publish to.