What if the telephone had gone differently?

The human voice becomes something you can send down a wire.

If it had gone differently: Business and government keep running on letters and telegrams; the pace of decisions stays a day slow.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the telephone. 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.